Steve Kenna

In the last decade I have intensified my exploration of painting in oils, acrylics, inks and watercolour. These various mediums bring to the surface my principal strengths of draughtsmanship and a unique and varied mark making.

I am also an established professional artist and tutor, and my practice may also embrace print-making techniques of copper and aluminium etching, contemporary photopolymer gravure, dynamic monotype printing and Gold Leaf/gilding works.

In terms of ‘style’ my work is seen as eclectic though while the influences I draw on are predominantly the rich artistic traditions within the British Isles, the formal construction, approach, and expressive mark-making are very broad in scope. The human figure will always be one of the central narrative elements in my work, even when the subject matter may not explicitly reference it.

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Website: https://www.stevekenna.co.uk/

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Recent WORK HISTORY

  • 17/04/2025 – Invited to be an Associate of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts (The Drawing Society.)
  • 15/09/2024 to 10/01/2025 – Delighted to have a Painting commissioned by the Salcombe RNLI to be part of the extensive Bi-centenary celebrations. Auctioned in January 2025.
  • 10/01/2025 – Painting selected for Society of Graphic and Fine Art 104th Open Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, the Mall in London
  • 15/10/2024 to 15/01/2025 – Selected to exhibit work at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in the 171st Open Exhibition in Bristol.
  • 01/06/2024 – For the ART BELOW London Public Art events I was selected to exhibit a full-sized billboard poster of my painting ‘The Lentille of the Ar Men lighthouse’ to be installed in the London Underground at Pimlico Station this June 2024.
  • 12/03/2024 – Awarded the ‘Best in Colour Award’ selected by the Royal Drawing School for my painting ‘Open Deck Trawling’ in the Society of Graphic and Fine Art 103rd Open exhibition – Mall Gallery March 2024
  • 02/02/2024 Honoured to be accepted as an Academician of the South West Academy of Fine & Applied Arts (SWAc).
  • 10/01/2024 – Painting selected for Society of Graphic and Fine Art 103rd Open exhibition – Mall Gallery, London.
  • 01/11/23 – Selected for the South West Academy of Fine & Applied Arts (SWAc) Open exhibition at Kennaway House.
  • 2023 – 2024 – Whinfield Gallery in Salcombe becoming active. Exhibiting in my own small gallery/studio in Herbert Road, Salcombe, TQ8 8HN.
  • 2011 – 2024 professional Artist/Tutor. Oils, Acrylic, Watercolour, Copperplate etching, Aluminium Etching, Photopolymer Gravure, Monoprint. Tutor at the Salcombe Art Club & Dartmouth Art Society in Acrylic Painting/Photopolymer Intaglio/Gold Leaf.
  • 1999 – 2011 Creative Director of ‘Workstation’ commercial design company, London.
  • 1997 – First Class Hons degree in Architecture, Kingston University, London