Keir Smith

A sculptor, but I like his water colours better.
The sources for his work were based in the art, architecture and sculpture of the italian renaissance.
Keir's long-standing interest and research into the iconography of Renaissance painting through to a revisited interest in the Thames within the City of London and Dutch marine painting.


Dutchman in Flanders III, Acrylic on paper, (2006), 76 x 56 cm.

In Keir's work as a whole, there is a central focus on cultural memory, on the reconstruction of a way of imagining the world that survives only in morsels or fading impressions. Keir was an artist driven by a sense of responsibility towards the almost completely abandoned ways of making meaning in Italian Renaissance art, and towards its own sense of inheritance and indebtedness.


The Tracento Mountain, watercolour, (1995- 97), 51 x 71 cm

 
Signature Spar, Acrylic, 25 x 18 cm, (2005).