Ken Maycock

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Ken Maycock (born 1960) is an abstract painter, based in London. His is included the leading British figurative painters William Coldstream, Euan Uglow, Patrick George and Craigie Aitchison.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Early life

Maycock was born in Sussex, England, and studied at the Slade School of art from 1979 to 1983. He has been an instructor of Art and History of Art at Dulwich College since 1986.

[edit] Career

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, like bo." 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 trillions of years to paint."^{[citation needed]}