Gordon King

 

'Garden Girls' Original Watercolour

 

At the age of 22 Gordon appointed an agent and went freelance, working for major magazines and advertisers. His first commissions were portraits and by the late 60s he had started to sell his originals though still working on his illustrations. Being married with three children also kept him busy!

Over the next decade he stopped doing illustrations in order to concentrate on his paintings, which at that time were mainly in oils. Success came quite rapidly, showing at the R.A. Summer Shows and the R.I. exhibitions, painting mostly figurative subjects. Gordon’s paintings of girls in natural surroundings became his trademark and the success of the watercolours in the early 80s, prints with Solomon & Whitehead and Limited Editions by Michael Stewart Fine Art and then Paul Cooper Galleries gave his work a big boost. Later limited editions, published by Washington Green, are promoted and sold worldwide.

Gordon has had many one-man shows, most recently at the prestigious Halcyon Gallery in Birmingham and London. He has been featured on radio and television in such programmes as the Gloria Hunniford Show and Collectors World. He has given seminars and after dinner speeches and has also done demonstrations of his figurative watercolour technique to Art Societies, painting from a live model. In the last few years he has supported various charities including projects for the Save the Children Fund and the Chiltern Cheshire Homes and has also been a regular ‘artist in residence’ on luxury leisure cruises.

In 1995 his book “A Romance with Art” was published, with a forward by HRH The Princess Royal, featuring a wide range of his oils and watercolours. His originals are now very collectable worldwide and his shows are major attractions.

 

Born 6th June 1939, Gordon spent the first seven years of his life in Kinghorne on the Fife coast of Scotland. The family then moved to his mother’s home town of Reading where he spent the remainder of his childhood years. As a school child he was very successful in art competitions, winning national prizes. After leaving school he studied life drawing at Reading University Art School and later trained as an illustrator at the prestigious Carlton Studios in London.

'Out of Shadow'original watercolour

'Resting Blue' original watercolour

 

 

 

 

For a selection of the current images available by this artist please call in or contact us at:

Wold Galleries, The Old Saddlery, 3a Oxford Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 0LA

Contacts: Kit & Ella Havelock-Davies Telephone:01608 650727 Email: wold.galleries@virgin.net

The Gallery is open to customers and browsers every day except Tuesday between 10:00am and 5:00pm. In Winter, (January until the end of March), we are also closed on Sunday