Keith Salmon
{{Short description|British fine artist (born 1959)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Keith Salmon
| image =
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| birth_name = Keith Charles Salmon
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1959|12|09}}
| birth_place = Essex, England, United Kingdom
| nationality = British
| field = Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
| movement = Abstract art, Landscape art
| awards = Jolomo Award 2009
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Keith Charles Salmon (born 1959) is a British fine artist. His work is principally semi-abstract Scottish landscapes which are created based upon his experience as a hill walker. Even though he is registered blind Salmon has climbed more than one hundred of Scotland's Munros, many of which have been captured in his artworks.
Education and experience
Keith Salmon was born in Essex and moved to Wales in the late 1960s. He studied for his BA in art at what is now Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology and Falmouth School of Art between 1979 and 1983. He originally trained and worked as a sculptor, constructing pieces from steel, wood and cement fondu. On completion of his studies he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the north east of England where he set up his first studio.
In 1989, Salmon moved back to Wales and set up a new studio. Around this time his sight deteriorated very quickly and within a few years he had to stop exhibiting work. He then decided to make the most of the time he still had sight and put his efforts into drawing and painting, finding new methods using just the very limited sight he now had left.
In 1998, he moved to Irvine, Ayrshire, in Scotland and, though registered blind, had enough confidence in the new paintings and drawings he created to once again start exhibiting them.
During this time his work has developed in two different styles: organised scribbles that form his drawings, and the bolder, broad marks in oil or acrylic paintings. Most of his works are based on his experiences while out walking in the Scottish Highlands. Over the last few years he has combined the scribbled pastel line with the painted acrylic marks, stating that he is "trying to capture a little of how I experience these wonderful wild places".[http://l-a-i.com/uk.html Depicting the Scottish landscape in art]
Keith's art was chosen by Microsoft to participate in what the artist called "The Oregon Project",{{Cite web|url=http://www.keithsalmon.org/the-oregon-project-in-edinburgh/|title = Oregon Project | Scottish Landscape Art - Scottish Landscape Paintings|date = 9 March 2017}} an art and sound project which used both a traditional art installation as well as a sound installation, and which was first shown at the 50th celebration of 9e2, originally created by Robert Rauschenberg and then taken to Edinburgh, Scotland.
At present Salmon keeps a studio space at Courtyard Studios in Irvine[http://www.courtyard-studios.co.uk/#/keith-salmon/4531014504 Courtyard Studios] and is regularly exhibiting his work again.
Awards
In 2009, Salmon won the Jolomo Award[http://www.jolomofoundation.org/News.html Jolomo Award] for Scottish landscape painting[http://www.KeithSalmon.org Scottish Landscape Painting award] and was interviewed by The Scotsman,[http://www.scotsman.com/arts/Interview-Keith-Salmon--visions.5362677.jp Salmon interview] one of Scotland's top broadsheet newspapers.
References
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Online references
2009
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101018020902/http://www.sensescotland.org.uk/helenkeller/ Keith Salmon is selected] to judge the Sense Scotland 8th Helen Keller International Awards, Glasgow 2009
- [http://www.insightradio.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=78 Audio Interview with Keith Salmon]: Insight Radio on Helen Keller Award
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605223455/http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/businessBulletin/bb-09/bb-07-06f.htm Scottish Parliament congratulates artist Keith Salmon] on winning Jolomo Award.
- [http://www.snh.gov.uk/press/detail.asp?id=2115 Scottish National Heritage - Keith Salmon Exhibition]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [http://www.irvineherald.co.uk/ayrshire-news/local-news-ayrshire/local-news-irvine/2009/07/10/irvine-artist-set-for-scholarship-75485-24098298/ Keith Salmon] hopes for German Scholarship opportunity - Local Ayrshire News
2008
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081023225100/http://forum.blindart.net/topic54-artist-interview--keith-salmon.aspx Keith Salmon is interviewed by Blind Art - 2008]
- [http://l-a-i.com/uk.html Landscape Artist International] Peer-reviewed group of international landscape artists
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724205708/http://www.fineexpressions.co.uk/news/2008%20Sep-Dec/art%20of%20distilling.html Diageo Art Commission]
Exhibitions
2009
- [http://www.glasgowartfair.com/?node_id=1.2.1&id=512 Glasgow Art Fair 2009 - Keith Salmon] Art Exposure Gallery
2006
- [http://talkingbooks.nypl.org/blog/2006/09/art-exhibit-sense-and-sensuality.html Keith Salmon] Sense & Sensuality - Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, NYC, New York, 2006
Prizes
- [http://www.jolomofoundation.org/News.html Jolomo Award 2009]
- Rotary Club Prize, North Ayrshire Exhibition 2006
- Northern Arts Artists' Award 1984
External links
- [https://www.keithsalmon.org/ Official website]
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Category:20th-century English painters
Category:21st-century English painters
Category:Alumni of Falmouth University
Category:British artists with disabilities