Shaun Kennedy’s Kentish Watercolours

Shaun Kennedy has been painting for a quarter of a century but it is only in the last seven or eight years that he has started taking his talents seriously.

 

The paintings and canvas creations come in many mediums as Shaun tells CommunityAd he experiments with “gouache, acrylic, and oils but watercolours have to be my favourite medium all though watercolours are very unforgiving and hard to master”. But ‘master’ Shaun has and there’s something about a watercolour that lifts a Kentish scene to a whole new level of beauty.

 

 

Having travelled and painted scenes and landscapes all over this fine land that we call the United Kingdom, it is here in Kent that Shaun finds inspiration “I love the diversity of East Kent coastline from the bleak desolate Dungeness and its ship wrecks to the White Cliffs of Dover and Folkestone and its fishing boats and Harbour to the busy seaside resorts of Thanet and its Golden Sandy beaches.”

 

 

Art as well as being important to the local economy in this creative part of the Kentish coast it is also so beneficial to people’s mental health. Creative expression is so important to our well-being that’s why in the dark days of the lockdown so many furloughed took up a creative task. “I believe Creativity is a human trait that is in all of us. Art is a form of self-expression which we can use as a healing process allowing us to transfer our feelings and emotions into Art. It’s a form of self-expression and an instrument of self-healing. When I paint, I am sharing an inner part of me which I find very calming and humble.”

 

Shaun Kennedy is in the process of setting up a website to showcase his artwork, in the meantime he exhibits his work Folkestone and Hythe Art Societies which both put on regular exhibitions.

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