Steve Kenna

I paint in oils, acrylics, inks and watercolour, this broad range of mediums are all focused to bring to the surface my principal strengths of draughtsmanship and passion for a varied and energetic mark making.

My practice as a painter also embraces print-making techniques of copper etching, contemporary photopolymer gravure, monotype and Gold Leaf works.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve_kenna/

Website: https://www.whinfieldgallery.uk/

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Recent WORK HISTORY

  • 01/05/2026 to 01/09/2026 – Exhibiting at the Summer Exhibition at my own Whinfield Gallery/studio in Herbert Road, Salcombe, TQ8 8HN.
  • 15/03/2026 – Exhibiting in the Society of Graphic and Fine Art 105th exhibition in London at the Mall Galleries
  • 15/05/2025 – Confirmed as an Associate of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts (The Drawing Society.) ASGFA
  • 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.
  • 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’ selected to exhibit a full-sized billboard poster ‘The Ar-Men lighthouse’, installed at Pimlico Tube Station. Followed by paintings Exhibited at the AdLib Gallery, Wimbledon Village, London
  • 12/03/2024 – Awarded the ‘Best in Colour Award’ from the Royal Drawing School for my painting ‘Open Deck Trawling’ in the Society of Graphic and Fine Art 103rd Open exhibition – London Mall Gallery March 2024
  • 02/02/2024 Honoured to be accepted as an Academician of the South West Academy of Fine & Applied Arts (SWAc).
  • 2023 – 2026 – Whinfield Gallery Owner. My ‘popup’ 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’ a commercial interiors company, London.
  • 1997 – Degree in Architecture, Kingston University, London