Born in Sarn, South Wales in 1947, Kevin Sinnott is a contemporary Welsh artist with a truly international reputation. He trained at Cardiff College of Art & Design, Gloucestershire College of Art & Design and at the Royal College of Art, London. Kevin remained in London throughout the 1970s and 80s, building a very successful career, and exhibiting at leading London galleries, major galleries in the USA and mainland Europe.
Kevin’s work is collected worldwide and he is represented in many important public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His large canvas, ‘Running Away with the Hairdresser’ has proved to be one of the National Museum and Galleries of Wales’s most popular acquisitions.
Kevin returned to live in Wales in 1995 and has quickly established himself at the forefront of the renaissance in Welsh painting. While his work is primarily concerned with human relationships, the influence of the south Wales landscape is strongly felt in his paintings. He was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2007.
Member Since 2009For most of my career I have invented the content of my pictures, sometimes relying for content on my knowledge of past and present art. I would conjure up some figures and perhaps place them in an imaginary albeit stereotypical landscape. Since 2007, however, I have occasionally been taking a box of oil colour outside when the weather permitted. In the summer just gone I spend several mornings and evenings in and over-looking Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan coast.The ‘en plein air’ oil studies are now all over the studio and the resulting larger canvasses will hopefully be exhibited next year.
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