Colin Kirby-Green, NDD(Painting)

During a period of leave from his National Service, Colin Kirby-Green attended a painting course run by Patrick Heron. Inspired by his encouragement, on leaving the R.A.F. He enrolled at St Martin's School of Art where he trained for 5 years. He then completed Art Teacher training at Hornsey College of Art, where he also taught part-time for a year. He taught painting & drawing at St. Albans School of Art for 5 years and lectured in art appreciation at Hatfield Polytechnic. It was during this time that he began exhibiting his work in London.

 It was also during his National Service that Colin met Jonathan Adams, artist & actor; they went on several painting trips together in France and Italy and remained friends to the end of Jonathan's life.

 Colin studied and painted in Italy for extended periods. He taught art at Colchester Grammar School and also for 14 years, up until 2005, taught painting, drawing and art history at Grey Friars Adult Community College in Colchester. Colin has been based in Brightlingsea, Essex, since 1980. He now teaches privately and leads groups on trips to places of artistic and cultural interest in Europe, the Near East, India and the USA. He also leads and teaches on landscape painting trips to France, Spain, and especially Italy.

Colin is a member of the Colchester Art Society.  www.colchesterartsociety.co.uk

Colin has organized numerous individual exhibitions in London and the provinces, and participated in mixed exhibitions in galleries in London, the provinces, Italy and Germany (see below for more details).  Her work is part of numerous private collections in Argentina, Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United States, Holland, Tunisia, Germany and Japan.  Colin's watercolours have been reproduced and sold as prints in several countries around the world.




One Man Shows:
Clytie Jessop Gallery, London
The New Gallery, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Upper Street Gallery, London (6 exhibitions)
Quadrangle Gallery, Oxford
Retrospective exhibition, Old Bull Gallery, Barnet with the support of the Greater London Arts Association
Graffiti Gallery, Great Marlborough Street, London (2 exhibitions)
The D'Arcy Gallery, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex
Graffiti Gallery at Blackman Harvey, Earlham Street, London
Blackman Harvey, Earlham Street, London
Blackman Harvey, Great Queen Street, London
Borderline Art, Covent Garden, London
The Studio, Brightlingsea (2 exhibitions)

Mixed exhibitions:
London, East End Academy at the Whitechapel Gallery, Naples, Ditchling, St. Alban, Farnham, Henley, Thames Ditton, the Blackheath gallery, the portal gallery, the P.  Gallery, Düsseldorf, Colchester; Ipswich; "Four Seasons Exhibition" at Blackman Harvey, "Homage to Cubism" by Blackman Harvey, Andrew Usiskin Gallery, Hampstead and Castiglione del Lago, Umbria, Colchester Art Society.