Kit Boyd A.R.E.
Kit Boyd is a Visual Artist working in the romantic tradition. Based in London, he is known for his detailed etchings and colourful linocuts. He is an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
Recent commissions have included six train station posters in Kent, linocuts for Craftland by James Fox published by Penguin Random House, and an exclusive linocut for the Victoria and Albert Museum Shop. His Greenwich Park linocut is flying around the world courtesy of British Airways on their business class amenity bags.
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This month I’m the featured artist at Greenwich Printmakers Gallery, showing recent linocuts, hand coloured etchings and my most popular landscape work. My featured artist runs until Sunday 21st June…
My art explores our relationship with landscape and our place in nature. I work in the British romantic tradition following the path of Samuel Palmer and the neo-romantic artists Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, John Craxton, John Minton, Keith Vaughan, & Eric Ravilious.
I have a studio at Arthub next to the Thames Barrier: visitors are welcome by appointment.
I studied Visual Art at the University of Wales Aberystwyth 1988-91.
I identify closely with British neo-romantic artists as they found that connection in the rural idyll and refined their expression of the spirit of place. Where the Neo-Romantics were escaping from the horrors of war (or Samuel Palmer the industrial revolution), my pictures are a refuge from the frantic modern world where media and technology conspire against quietude and contemplation. While I am not against these advances, I am aware of the danger of losing touch with our environment. I believe the pastoral idyll can continue to co-exist with our advances in technology.
Galleries where you can buy my work:
The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH
Greenwich Printmakers, 1a Greenwich Market, London SE10 9HZ – holds the largest collection of my printmaking in stock
Francis Iles Gallery
Pallant House Book Shop, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
The Biscuit Factory, Stoddart Street, Newcastle NE2 1AN
Churchgate Gallery, Porlock, Somerset, TA24 8PT
Frivoli Gallery, 7a Devonshire Road, Chiswick W4 2EU
Adam’s Gallery 42a High Street Reigate, Surrey RH2 9AT
Print dealers who stock my work: Elizabeth Harvey-Lee
Online dealers who stock my editions and some unique hand-coloured versions
Rise Art, The Strand, London
