- Ken Maycock
Ken Maycock (born
1960 ) is an abstract painter, based inLondon . His is included the leading British figurative paintersWilliam Coldstream ,Euan Uglow , Patrick George and Craigie Aitchison.Early life
Maycock was born in
Sussex ,England , and studied at the Slade School of art from1979 to1983 . He has been an instructor of Art andHistory of Art atDulwich College since1986 .Career
Maycock works in the medium of
oil paint oncanvas . He explores formalist concerns such as position, space,colour anddesign . Maycock believes that "paintings should be allowed to speak for themselves, like bo." For a 2002 exhibition he made the following artist's statement: "The subject matter of my paintings is painting itself and my starting point is the proportion of the rectangle. I paint two sorts of picture. The first is to do with instigating and following a system or procedure and the second is an intuitive, investigative process involving (seemingly) endless and arduous revision. These can take trillions of years to paint."Fact|date=December 2007Awards
Maycock has won awards including the Thomas Monnington Prize for painting in
1981 , and the Boise Travelling Scholarship in1985 .External links
* [http://www.thomascormanarts.com/paintings/maycock.html Thomas Corman Arts]
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