JAMES KELSO
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James Kelso

​Artist / Oxford / UK
Tel: +44 (0)1491 613003 - 07881 908903
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'I DON'T SEARCH FOR SUBJECTS, THEY TEND TO FIND ME.'

(Trade currently suspended. Lucked down. Site last updated 25 February 2021.)

​REACTING TO MOMENTS 
All I ever do is react. Anything may invoke the spell. Something catches my eye.
A sudden angle of sunlight, a shower of rain, the light failing on a winter’s evening. Nothing stays still for long.
The thing is to be there, in the moment, to see it, to record it.
P
lease note the above painting of the bearded gentleman is not a self-portrait.
It is a copy of a masterpiece by van Dyck that hangs in the Rockox House Museum, Antwerp.
The title of the van Dyck work is, Studies of a Man’s Head. It shows a head in two positions. I painted only one.
​That was hard enough.

'The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.'
Oscar Wilde

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Exhibitions

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), The Royal Festival Hall,
​The London Stock Exchange, Saatchi Online, Marylebone Gallery and other venues.
​Paintings in private collections in America, Australia, Britain, France and Sweden and prints sold worldwide.

Browse, borrow, buy.

My home is my gallery. The sign above the door, if there were one, would read:
Authentic, original, artwork for sale, direct from the artist, face-to-face, one-to-one.
I sell drawings, paintings and prints to art buyers, art directors, architects, interior designers, art lovers
and private collectors. I welcome studio visits - by appointment - comments, opinions, ideas, commissions and custom.
0% finance and easy terms available on certain items. This can include loans so you can view
a work in your own home before purchase. Loans apply to some originals only, not prints.
Tel: +44 (0)1491 613003 - 07881 908903 - jim@kelso.co.uk
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  • Home
  • About
    • Legacy
    • About the methods
  • Gallery
    • The Winter's Tale
    • Gran Via
    • Isolation
    • Carriers
    • La Malvinie
    • 16 Walpole
    • The Ghost Tanker
    • The Shipping Forecast
    • The Didcot Interpretation
    • Site
    • Lake Keitele
    • Tom Stoppard
    • The Maybe Man
    • Double Self Portrait With Knees
    • Post Ironic Iron Horse
    • Terminus
    • Dune
  • Prints
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Dupuytrens
  • Cleared to Land
  • Landed
  • The Worm Forgives the Plough
  • Matins
  • FAREWELL TO STOCKEVIK
  • Vespers
  • The Raft