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Kerstin McGregor (1962-2012)
Wolves
Abstract oil on canvas painting
Unsigned
188 x 145 cm (74" x 57")
Kerstin McGregor was a resident of Downend in Bristol for nearly 20 years. She was born in November 1962, and grew up in Balsall Common, Warwickshire. She trained at Liverpool polytechnic College of Art, specialising in oil paintings. She graduated with first class honours in Fine Art in 1986.
Between 1986 and 1990, Kerstin painted and exhibited from her studio at the Bridewell Studios, Liverpool. During this time she exhibited throughout the Northwest and the Midlands. She married in 1990 and lived for a short time in Redditch, Worcestershire, before moving to Bristol in 1992. Kerstin continued painting and exhibiting from her home studio, but also pursued a parallel career as a community education teacher of arts and crafts, specialising in teaching people with learning difficulties.
Kerstin described her work as ‘based on life, but painted from her imagination’. She admired, and drew inspiration from, many well known artists including: Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gauguin and Kandinsky. She was also a great admirer of Monet, Van Gogh and other impressionists. Kerstin believed that the creative process was of equal importance to the finished painting. Whilst oil painting was Kerstin’s first love, she also made pictures in chalk and oil pastel, pencil and charcoal, watercolour and mixed media.
Kerstin exhibited at many galleries and events including Midlands Art Centre 1981, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 1986, Artist’s Studios Liverpool 1986, Ayling Porteous Gallery Chester 1986, Athenum Gallery Manchester 1987, Acorn Gallery Liverpool 1990, Kings Heath Birmingham 1992 and many more including a exhibit after her death In 2013 at the Royal West Of England Academy ( R.W.A ), Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol entitled Kerstin McGregor Retrospective.
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