Alan King

"After nearly thirty years in teaching, I started to paint full time in 1997. I have enjoyed the experience of trying to put into practice the work ethic and lessons of teaching art full time. I am interested in the process of painting and am constantly investigating and reading about the materials and the craft of painting.

The Red Hat continues to be a major theme within my work. Storytelling and a love of Renaissance Italian Art are the roots of development of my work. I try to create images that are visually compelling and which form a bond with the spectator. Many of the images and the titles used have their source in literature and poetry. This leads to ideas, which are developed, with life models and a miniature theatre, which I built. Manakins and backgrounds are positioned and photographed with different lighting effects. It is my intention that each painting has a narrative aspect that can be interpreted by each person in a different way." Alan King

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Disguised Dreamer

Paulo's Horseman

The Fire Eater's Wife

The Italian Cloth

The Men From Tuscany

The Messenger

Curriculum Vitae

Born Glasgow 1946
Trained, Glasgow School of Art 1964 – 68

1970 - 80 Exhibited regularly with Renfrewshire teachers in Paisley Museum.

1989, 91, 93, 95, 97 Paisley Drawing Competition

1990 Artist member of Paisley Art Institute. Annual exhibitor with this group.

1993 onwards, regular exhibitor at the R.G.I. Glasgow

1995 Artist member of the Glasgow Art Club.

From 1994 I have exhibited regularly in the following Galleries.

Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
Gatehouse Gallery, Giffnock, Glasgow
Thompsons Gallery London, Albeburgh and Stow-on–the-Wold
Colours Gallery, Edinburgh
Queens Gallery, Aberdeen
Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey
Lemon St. Gallery, Cornwall

First one man show in Art Exposure Glasgow in August 1997

I have also exhibited regularly at the following art fairs in Islington, Chelsea, London and Glasgow

1998

Three Person Show Gallery 41, Edinburgh
Four Person Show Green Gallery, Aberfoyle
Four Person Show Albamarle Gallery, London
Scottish Show Thomson’s Gallery, London
Four Person Show Edinburgh Gallery, Edinburgh
Mixed Show Frames Gallery Perth
Glasgow Art Club touring exhibition to
Aachan, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Paris

1999

One person show in Art Exposure Glasgow and various group
shows in the above galleries.

2000

Two person show in Thompsons Gallery, London
One person show in Gallery 41, Edinburgh
Three person show in Richmondhill Gallery, Richmond
Millennium show, Albemarle gallery
Various Group shows in most of the above galleries

2001

Group shows in Thompsons Galleries, Art Exposure, Richmondhill, Gallery 41, Queens Gallery, Lemon Street Gallery and art fairs throughout the country.

2002

I continue to exhibit with most of the above.
Two person show in Thompsons, Marylebone.
One person show in August at Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow.

2003

Group shows in Thompsons, Richmondhill, Art Exposure, Queens
and Gallery 41.

2004

Group shows in above galleries as well as one person show in Art Exposure in August. Group show in Tucker Gallery in Chicago. Regular exhibitor at the R.G.I and the P.A.I.

2005

Solo show in Richmondhill Gallery. Group shows in Art Exposure, Colours Gallery, Fotheringham Gallery Perth, Dublin Art Fair, Art Fairs in Italy and Cannes with Tracey McNee Fine Art, New York Art Fair with Leith Gallery, Group show with Tucker Gallery in Chicago.

2006 Group shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth and London WREN Gallery Oxfordshire. Smithy Gallery Strathblane. Awarded P.A.I. by Paisley Art Institute.

2007

Group shows in Wren gallery, Limetrees Gallery in Suffolk, Thomsons Gallery Aldeburgh. Art Fairs in London, Glasgow and Bath.

Collections

Prudential Insurance Group

Stakis Group, Dunkeld Hotel, Perth

Costly & Costly Hoteliers Ltd. Lochgreen, Troon

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