A figurative painter
John Killens
John Killens has painted full time since 2000, working in oil, watercolour and pastel. A figurative painter more than half his work is en plein air which he finds a great stimulus and release from more detailed studio work.
Elected a member of the Wapping Group of Artists and a member of the Chelsea Art Society.
Phone : 07799 500953 E Mail : killensart@tiscali.co.uk
Paintings
Marine
Urban
Portraits
Landscape
Interiors
Plein Air Painting and Sketches
Archive
Marine Gallery
Henley, Preparation
Evening Light
Dawn
Eel Pie Island, the White Cruiser
Evening on Lake Como
Colne Smacks Misty Morning
Cleaning the white boat
Afternoon at Sunbury
Amaryllis
Morning, Tollesbury
Morning light, Brentford Dock
Rust and red paint, Paglesham
Honfleur
Midday
Portsmouth Dockyard from the Spinnaker Tower
Henley quiet summer morning-email
Low tide, Isleworth
Lighters at Bugsbys Reach
Urban Gallery
Towards The Albert, Victoria Street
Ebb and Flow, Sloane Sq Underground Station
Beside Regents Canal
Rainy night on Chelsea Embankment
Towards St Marys, evening
The old railway bridge
Rainy morning, Park St
The Summerhouse
Outside the Palace, tourists in the rain
Morning, Little Venice
Garden Pond
Evening, Sloane Sq after the shower
Putney High Summer
Chelsea Reach
Lunch On The Move
Cambridge transport
After rain, Richmond Bridge
Outside the summerhouse
The timber yard, after the storm
December, Lower Regent Street
Deciding what to play
Early morning light, towards Westminster
Kingston Towpath, angler, artist, artist, angler
Lunchtime, St Katharine Docks
Portrait Gallery
Tina
Fola
Noel
Pensive
Maurice
Contemplation
Sara
Nigel
Ann
Diana
Landscape Gallery
Timber yard at Redgate Mill
The Shed With Blue The Window
Across the field to Oare Creek
The Abandoned Garden In Winter
Newmarket, November-back from the gallops
On the road to Uckfield
Cottages in Paddock Road
St Osyth across the fields
Mt Caburn
Town Row Green farm
Abandoned barrow
Interiors Gallery
In for repair-Tollesbury
Mouser’s bowl
Turnstyler Lathe
The last of old Silvertown
The Sail loft, Tollesbury
The Wheelhouse
Southwark Cathedral interior
Laid up for winter
February morning, Gardeners teabreak
Out of the heat, inside the tithe barn Alciston
Maylandsea boat shed
The art room window
October still life in the studio
February outlook
Plein Air Painting and Sketches
Teddington
Southwold from the beach
The path to Little Red Hut
The Downs from Wellingham Lane
October afternoon
Silvertown
Early August morning, Ashdown Forest
Rotherhithe
Newmarket- early morning
Low tide, bright morning
Bank holiday weather
At White House Farm
Hartfield, the Lytch gate
Birling Gap looking west
Archives
Winter on the Allotments
Whitehall, from the top of a number 11
The River at Maidenhead
The Sketching Party
Working on CK258
Tenacious passing Thames Quay
St. Osyth
Pont Alexandre towards Les Invelides
Plein air sketch, Winter Trees
Loire the 7:30 flight
Pembury Old Church
January sun
Into the light
Firle Beacon, January afternoon
From Richmond Bridge
Glittering light, glowering sky, Heybridge
Isleworth, soft morning
Geraniums
Early morning reflections, Ouistreham
Faversham
December morning on the Mall
Chichester, East Street in the rain
Christines Shed
Constitution Hill
Bunny Lane, summer afternoon
A jogger on Putney embankment
Building the tower crane
Afternoon at Hampton Court Bridge
Afternoon, on site
Boat building under the arches, Richmond
Artist Profile
With a Father and an Aunt who were both amateur artists, he grew up with paint and brushes as part of his life. Attending Southend School of Arts and Crafts, he worked in as an illustrator in his early years. The work giving a great foundation in drawing, but there was little opportunity to paint, and for 30 years he followed a different career path painting at weekends and during holidays. Following a lifelong ambition he became a full time artist in 2000.
Successfully selling the first time he exhibited, his first major exhibition a, joint one was in August 2004. This proved very successful and gave the confidence to successfully enter work in the RSMA and RWS open exhibitions in London.
In 2008 he elected to the prestigious Wapping Group of artists, one of the oldest established groups of working artists in the country.
His work has been hung in the RSMA and ROI open exhibitions at the Mall Gallery and the RWS open exhibitions at Bankside. At the 2009 RSMA exhibition he was awarded the Watercolour prize and in 2012 an award for Pastel at Patchings. He has exhibited in London Lives at the Bankside Gallery and in 2011 was joint winner of the Artist magazine Christmas prize. He was elected to the Chelsea Art Society in 2014 and is now on the Society Council
Being brought up near the sea, with the Essex countryside around, marine and landscape are among his favourite subjects, together with urban scenes and interiors. He finds as much colour and vitality in a working factory as an unspoiled landscape, and was appointed Artist in residence for the construction of a major local Community Hall.
The following photograph shows a painting of the Cutty Sark undergoing conservation enlarged 4 times to make a display hording for the project. The original was purchased by the Trustees.
