Paintings, By The Numbers Gallery 2024
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A Matter Of Reflection 18×24
Quiet Bay 18×24
At Anchor 20×28
Loner 20×28
Hangin’ Around 22×28
Two Realities 22×30
End Of The Line 22×30
Solitude 24×36
Been Around A While 24×48
Late Summer 30×15
Sunshine And Thunder 30×20
To Distant Shores 30×20
Spring At Tunkwa 30×24
Just Passing 30×24
A Spring In The Fall 30×40
A Spring In The Fall II 30×40
Tying Up At Ucluelet 30×40
Tree Line 36×12
Afternoon At Tunkwa Lake 36×18
Lazing About 36×18
Looking Beyond 36×18
No Hurry 36×18
Skull In The Mist 36×18
Coming Closer 36×24
Harvest Time 36×24
Two Solitudes 36×24
Watching Over 36×30
Ken’s Crab Float 40×20
Passing By 40×20
Ranchland II 40×20
Beaver Pond III 40×24
Before The Roundup 40×24
Clinker Built 40×30
Dingy At Dock 40×30
High Country 40×30
Western Flyway 40×30
Beyond The Marsh 48×24
Extravagant Spectacle 48×24
Greenback Cutthroat Trout ((Cutthroat Trout) The Movie Star) 48×24
Marsh At High Tide 48×24
Mountain And Marsh 48×24
Span Of Green Cables 48×36
A Canadian Story 60×30
Before The Front Range 60×30
Guarding The Salish Sea 60×30
Windy Afternoon 60×30
Reflections In The Sound 60×30
Island View 60×36
Inukshuks In The Blowing Snow 60×40
Reflective Waters 60×40
Late Summer Evening 72×36
Artist
Ken Kirkby
Kenneth Michael Kirkby was born during an air raid in London, England in 1940. The timing may have foreshadowed the warrior-painter he was to become. He grew up in Portugal and in the late 1950s, he realized his dream to move to Canada.
He spent five years in the Canadian Arctic and promised the Inuit people that he would find a way to raise awareness of their issues in the rest of Canada. This promise became “Isumataq” – the world’s largest oil-on-canvas portrait. The 12 ft high by 152 ft long painting of the Arctic landscape was exhibited at the Canadian Parliament in 1992 and Ontario Place in 1993. Kirkby then turned his “warrior-painter” gaze on the depletion of the salmon stocks and the destruction of their habitats in B.C. rivers.
Ken died on June 20, 2023 in his home on Vancouver Island. He was 82 and was active in his studio until a few weeks before his death, from cancer.
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