Describing his work as storytelling, self-taught ar tist Keith uses ar t to ask questions about our society. Exploring themes of narcissism, greed and civil unrest, his monochromatic paintings inter twine raw emotion with a hunger to understand the world around us. Born in Wolverhampton in 1962 and now living near Cardigan Bay, Keith turned down the oppor tunity to study ar t in order to suppor t his family. Now that he has achieved his dream of becoming a professional ar tist, his first step is to form ideas using hand-drawn preliminary sketches, before progressing into more detail. With a rough idea in his head or on paper, he develops it as a storyboard, similar to a car toonist. Once the story works with the sketch, he star ts to paint. The piece is created in white acrylic paint with a brush and palette knives. After this has dried, he adds up to eight layers of graphite and acrylic before finally adding oil and soft pastel. Keith adds: “A lot of my work is storytelling. It sometimes takes longer to create the story of a painting than to paint the piece itself. It’s a difficult process that takes time, research and endless scribbles and sketches to bring everything together.”
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