For the past few years Gareth has been working on a series of paintings called Fifteen feet of pure white snow. These canvases are inspired by a set of old family photographs of a remote part of Wales where he grew up. The paintings allude to more innocent times, whilst hinting at some kind of impending horror or disaster. Some of the pictures have figures in them; which lends an eerie, creepy and voyeuristic feel to them. In others, the landscape appears bleak and olde worldy; the only signs of the modern world are subtly painted electricity pylons or telegraph poles. The series consists of over thirty canvases.

Gareth Kemp often works in series. Kintyre painting NoI is part of a series of paintings based on photographs taken whilst on holiday in Scotland last year. He tends to spend many hours carefully planning the composition, a process of mentally cutting and pasting within and between the photographs, before realising the composition. The painting is then painted relatively quickly. Like The Fight, all of the ‘action’ of the painting is placed within one quarter of the picture. Gareth has a formalist approach to painting, the composition being an integral part.

Gareth Kemp has recently been short-listed for the inaugural Liverpool Art prize having originally been one of 44 artists nominated. More information can be seen on www.liverpoolartprize.com

Gareth Kemp has exhibited widely, both in the UK and further afield and his work is held in various private collections.

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