Date: Monday 29th September 2025, 11:00 - 14:00
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: Free Attendance
‘A Palette Painting Day’, with John Killens
At this free event, plein-air landscape painter John Killens will be demonstrating his apporach to oil painting!
‘Outside (weather permitting!) I aim to paint in Fulham Road near the Gallery. If inside, I will hope to show the wonderful art atmosphere of the interior.’ - John Killens
About John Killens
John Killens grew up beside the Thames Estuary with open Essex countryside around. Being able to roam the surrounding fields and rivers with freedom reflected in his first approach to painting, predominantly landscape and marine.
Painting plein air is a large part of his present work, enjoying the challenge and statements to be made in front of a subject.
Working in Oil, Watercolour and Pastel, entirely dependent on the subject, some of his plein air works are left as a statement of time and place. Others are used as the basis for further exploring the subject if he feels that there is more to say. John is increasingly driven towards putting atmosphere as the main statement in his work and it has now become his prime reason for painting.
Carrying with the painting influences of early life, John has added to these with an increasing interest in painting urban scenes- London and the Thames. John is also greatly influenced by still life- painting everyday objects so often overlooked.
To Rewind a little:
Growing up near Southend on the Thames Estuary, starting to paint when very young, School followed by Art School and his first job was as an illustrator. John became a fulltime painter in 2000, elected a member of the Wapping Group in 2008 and election to Chelsea Art Society in 2014.
John’s work has been shown in open Exhibitions with Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Watercolour Society, winning the Watercolour prize at the RSMA and at Chelsea Art Society. John is a regular Exhibitor at the Henley Royal Regatta. His watercolour of the Cutty Sark under conservation in Greenwich was purchased and used as display by the Cutty Sark Trust.
His work is now held in collections from China to the United States.
To learn more about John, please visit his website here.
