JAMES KELSO
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● Double Self-Portrait With Knees

24" x 64" (61 x 163cm) / Acrylic on gessoed panel / RA 2007 D-notice / Private Collection
Picture
‘Double Self-Portrait with Knees’ was painted with acrylics on a gessoed panel. The panel is 24" x 64" (61 x 163 cm) - almost life size to a piano keyboard. The idea for the painting was simple. I sit at a piano for a few minutes on most days and have done so for years. Then one day I chanced to see my knees reflected in the woodwork.

Looking closer, my eyes now fully open, I saw my face reflected, not once but twice, and at different sizes. I’d simply never noticed the reflections before. I worked on the painting for nearly a year.  ​The painting now hangs in a company boardroom in Paris.

For more info please contact jim@kelso.co.uk or phone 01491 613003

A First. In 2020, one of my paintings, The Treasure of Britwell Salome - Matins was accepted by the The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) for exhibition at their Annual Show. The RBA is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of skill, concept and draughtsmanship in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing.

https://www.jameskelsoartist.com/the-treasure-of-britwell-salome.html

https://royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/

https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/royal-society-british-artists-303rd-annual-exhibition-2020/treasure-britwell
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GUARANTEED TO LAST 1000 YEARS 

I live by the rule, when you’re painting you’re not only making art, you’re making furniture. I use the finest light-fast oil, acrylic and watercolour paints, and work on hardboard. If you don’t damage, burn or submerge the paintings, they should last 1000 years. If they don’t, well, get back to me.


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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
  • The Treasure of Britwell Salome - Matins
  • FAREWELL TO STOCKEVIK
  • The Treasure of Britwell Salome- Vespers