Artist Research: Paul Kenton

Paul Kenton is a contemporary artist specialising cityscapes, abstracts and seascapes with watercolours, acrylics and oils.

Kenton’s style has evolved over the past ten years into a free- flowing fusion of various media, capturing the essence of the location rather then “the fiddly details of what something looks like” creating an atmosphere with free shapes, dripped lines and colour.

He loves capturing scenes late in the dat and into the early evening due to the last drops of warming light filling every available surface. His cityscapes reflects hand moods of manmade landscapes; he finds it exhilarating to express furious movement, artificial lights and the vibrancy of a busy city centre at night as well as the subtler moods of a misty dawn at the same venue.

Paul Kenton is using colour to capture the moment of the place. He is using the colour to tell the views what was moment like and exaggerating it on the painting to captured the moment to show the viewers.

The reason I am attracted by Paul’s work is because the colour he used and the way he draw the building. I think it is a really unique way to draw building in lines but not in a details way and at the same time you can recognise it is a building with information. It is not simply capturing the place but show it in a different way especially the works he has done with the black ink outlining the building and makes it stands out and exaggerating the colours.