Ken Maycock
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Ken Maycock is an abstract painter, based in London. Maycock was born in Sussex in 1960. He studied at the Slade School of art from 1979 to 1983. His teachers at the Slade School included the leading British figurative painters William Coldstream, Euan Uglow, Patrick George and Craigie Aitchison. Maycock has won awards including the Thomas Monnington Prize for painting in 1981 and the Boise Travelling Scholarship in 1985. He has taught Art and History of Art at Dulwich College school since 1986.
[edit] Work
Maycock works in the medium of oil paint on canvas. He explores formalist concerns such as position, space, colour and design. Maycock believes that "paintings should be allowed to speak for themselves." For a 2002 exhibition he made the following artist's statement: "The subject matter of my paintings is painting itself and my starting point is the proportion of the rectangle. I paint two sorts of picture. The first is to do with instigating and following a system or procedure and the second is an intuitive, investigative process involving (seemingly) endless and arduous revision. These can take years to paint."
[edit] Exhibitions
- 1983 “The Pick of Undergraduate Art”, Christie's Fine Art, London
- 1985 Summer show, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
- 1987 Robertson-Mort Gallery, Bedford
- 1989 Cadogan Contemporary, London
- 1990 Cadogan Contemporary, London
- 1991 Woodhay Gallery, London
- 1992 Vaughan-Luyten, London
- 1993 Vaughan-Luyten, London
- 1993 Marryat Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames
- 1994 Blackheath Concert Halls, London
- 1996 "13 Contemporary Artists", Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
- 2001 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
- 2001 Anderson Gallery, Burford
- 2001 Attic Gallery, Swansea
- 2002 Art.co, Leeds
- 2003 Stables Gallery, London ( Brent Arts Council)
