Artist Ken Hamilton's Paintings
Artist Ken Hamilton Irish painter in the classical style. Ken Hamilton was born in a Nigerian mining village in the year 1956. Missionaries were their parents. at eleven years old In 1974, the family returned to Northern Ireland, where they had grown up. Ken Hamilton enrolled in the University of Belfast's College of Art and Design in 1975, but left in 1977 due to dissatisfaction with the teaching quality. He majored in horticulture and landscape design at the university. For numerous years, He worked in this profession. He needed to make money so that he could return to painting.
Ken Hamilton employed more classical visual or academic creative approaches in terms of composition and subject matter, abandoning modern art's styles and artistic traditions. Simultaneously, he desired to "restore some of the ancient values of painting, which have been abandoned by many." He is a master of drawing, portraiture, and still life, with exceptional control of light and shadow (chiaroscuro). Unlike some of the High Renaissance painters, Hamilton's paintings, many of which are portraits or paintings of the feminine form, do not aim to reveal the artist's inner soul, but rather celebrate a visual joy in the human form. The essential motivation is joy, not sorrow.
Ken Hamilton's painting "Leaving the City" earned the Most Popular Work Award (selected for by exhibitors) during the 125th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Ulster Academy of Art (RUA) in 2006. With so many contemporary artists rejecting the academic heritage of fine art in favour of newer and more "modern" forms of expression, Ken Hamilton's beautiful paintings assist to restore the Renaissance's charm and remind us of the graceful shapes of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Ken Hamilton's highest auction price for a painting was £32,000 in 2012, when his painting titled The Strange Traveler was sold at Gormley in Belfast.
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