Kerry Darlington art

Biography

Kerry Darlington is an artist born in Wales and living in the UK.

The Watergate Street Gallery is the first art gallery that Kerry exhibited and sold her work through. We have a unique working relationship and have supported Kerry for over 10 years and always have at least 20 of her very best paintings on display instore.

Kerry Darlington is now recognised as one of the UK's leading artists and named runner up in the Art Guilds Best Selling Published artist award

Her work continues to evolve, and she is currently experimenting with figurative oil paintings, using her contemporary style alongside realistic figure painting and portraits and inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite period, the Aesthetic movement and Art Nouveau.

Kerry Darlington was born in 1974 on a coastal town of North Wales, the talent of Kerry Darlington was fuelled by a love of beautiful old picture books (Rackham, Dulac and Beardsley were her favourites), which developed into a degree in illustration in 1996.

Kerry Darlington worked for many years with line drawings and watercolour, diversifying as she became more confident with colour. She now works with a variety of mediums, acrylic and oil.

Her acrylic paintings are uniquely formed upon board or canvas first, using texture and gessos. The colour is then built upon in layers to create depth. Her abstract pieces were initially based upon satellite photographs of Earth which created the 'Volcanic' Collection in 2005/2006. This has since diversified to include contemporary landscapes and figure-work, all carrying her unique style.