Hello and welcome, My name is Kiran and I'm a portrait artist based in West Sussex, UK. This part of my website is to fill you in on who i am, what i do and how i came to be doing it.
As you've seen from my gallery I specialise in highly stylised modern pop art portraits,
although my first love was graphic illustration and line work as you can see by my self portrait.
I reluctantly had to move away from this pen and paper style of work to become more efficient in my work.
Occasionally I will pencil, ink and scan a piece then re-create it digitally, I have a different style altogether when it comes to hand drawn pieces and find greater freedom than working with Photoshop.
This page will grow, I'll be including some of my college work along with details on how I went from working full time in retail to where I am today.
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Previous Canvas Exhibition
The Capitol Theatre, Horsham. September - October 2008
The best place to begin would be with my first canvas exhibition that started my career. It was a much needed kick-start that got my work taken seriously and gave me some substance to my name.
In October 2007, a few months after finishing college I submitted a portfolio of work to the capitol theatre in Horsham for exhibition. After a panel had reviewed my submissions I received confirmation in January that they had accepted my work and had chosen six prints to be exhibited later that year.
This was my first experience in putting a show. The Capitol Theatre took care of publicising the event I just had to write and provide my own press release along with some promotional photographs.
After the contract was signed the hard work began. I had just left college after spending two years working
weekends so money was pretty tight and I now had to find hundreds to have the six canvases printed. It was always going to be the only real opportunity to launch my artistic career and get my work seen by a large audience. If I had held back from submitting my work and waited it would have been a whole year
before I would be able to exhibit there and a lot can be accomplished in a year with a good start.
The opening day soon came round and the event went off well. The Crawley News covered my story on the opening week, the college also promoted my exhibition encouraging all first and second year students to go along. With the exhibition finishing I was approached by Bar Med in Crawley who had seen my work in the paper and offered me permanent exhibition with them so the canvases we moved to their new home.
Shortly after the exhibition the economy took a dive so all the 2009 exhibition plans were cancelled and I've since moved away from that area until a more suitable time. It would be nice to exhibit again, my work has come along way since my original pieces and I'd like to see a lot of them on canvas.
