Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts (b.1942) spent his first seven years in the little Scottish town of Milngavie as an evacuee from the Clydebank Blitz. In Glasgow he was founder and CEO of a very successful Scottish graphic communications group. His experience includes illustration, graphic design, copywriting and litho printing.
His love of art started in childhood with regular weekend visits to the wonderful Kelvingrove Art Gallery where the work of the French impressionists and The Glasgow Boys inspired him to go on to study commercial art and life drawing at Glasgow School of Art. He also studied printing at Stow College Glasgow. He has painted all his life and in 1999 Ken decided to become a full time artist settling in the beautiful east coast university town of St Andrews.
Ken’s paintings have exhibited in galleries in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stonehaven, St Andrews and Woodstock Oxfordshire. He has many collectors throughout the U.K. and USA. His work has twice been featured in the International Artist Magazine.

Artist’s Statement
It rains a wee bit in Scotland! As a young boy I have vivid memories of sitting at my bedroom window, listening to Ravel’s Bolero playing on my older brother’s wind-up gramophone whilst through the raindrops on the glass I tried to find faces in the clouds. To this day, gestalt and neurographic drawing play a invaluable and essential part in my approach to painting.
I have always loved to paint and, like most folks, find it cathartic. My two dimensional canvas, regardless of dimensions, becomes a portal to another world that photography cannot capture. There is a longing to take the viewer with me on my colourful, ethereal journey. Putting paint to canvas is only the shorthand for magical people or places seen or imagined. On occasions a landscape will happen so quickly it’s almost as if it was on the canvas before I started . . . Always grateful for that. The finished product is only a success for me if it lifts a room and adds a little pleasure to the l