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Ken Hamilton

Ken Hamilton (Born 1956) is active/lives in Ireland.  Ken Hamilton is known for Classical real still life and female portrait painting.

Ken Hamilton (b.1956)

The Irish classical*-style painter Ken Hamilton returned to Ireland from Nigeria at the age of eleven. He studied fine art painting and drawing at Art College in Belfast.

Eschewing the fashions and artistic conventions of contemporary art, Hamilton employs more classical painting or academic* art techniques concerning composition and subject matter. In so doing, he wishes to "restore some of the ancient values of painting now discarded by so many." A master of figure drawing, portrait art, and still life painting, he demonstrates superb treatment of light and shadow (chiaroscuro*).

Not unlike some of the Old Masters* from the High Renaissance period, Hamilton's paintings - many of which are pictures or portraits of the female form - do not attempt to bare the artist's own soul, but instead celebrate the visual pleasure of the human form.  Joy rather than despair is the underlying motif.

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