Gary Kennedy Fine Art

GARY KENNEDY​

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I have deep roots in Newfoundland, being born and raised in Port de Grave. I developed my personal style not through any formal training but through the influence of George Noseworthy, an American artist who moved to Port de Grave to pursue his own work. Noseworthy provided the necessary materials, encouraged the local kids to express themselves through painting, and donated countless hours to guiding their artistic education by critiquing the output of these aspiring artists. I was photographed in 1970, along with one of my paintings for an article in TIME magazine featuring George Noseworthy and was considered to be his most promising protégé.

I became a full-time artist in 1984.
 

My serigraphs completed from 1984 to 2000 are biographical artistic expressions of my childhood that celebrates life growing up in a Newfoundland outport. These serigraphs have been executed using millions of dots, done one at a time similar to pointillism.

Since 1999 I have worked in the medium of oil-on-canvas and some of the paintings completed have found their way into private and corporate collections. These paintings have been completed using a technique of thousands of brush strokes. The emphasis is composition and the effects of light and colour.

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My paintings can be found in private collections in Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Norway and the United States.

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