Paintings By Artist Kieran Stiles
Kieran Stiles is a leading British painter living and working in Oxfordshire. He studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art and in 2019 was Visiting Research Fellow in the Arts at Merton College, University of Oxford, where his exhibition ‘Lightscape’ curated by Flora Fairbairn was listed as a Top Pick in the Saturday Times by Rachel Campbell-Johnston.
Kieran’s paintings begin outside, often in the landscapes of Cornwall, where he originally trained studying Fine Art at Falmouth.
These works are then developed and refined over subsequent weeks in his Oxford studio. Each is a unique expression of a particular place. Layers of oil paint are superimposed with fractured marks, dashes and splatters that capture the spirit of a continually changing landscape. These evocative images are full of vitality, fizzing with life and electric colour. As Kieran puts it: "Colour is exciting and experimenting with it can provoke all kinds of questions. Life is abstract and vision can be beyond conventional realism. This way of working allows me to paint what I feel and imagine, not what I know".
Kieran also lectures at The Ashmolean Museum Oxford in connection with their major exhibitions, and at Merton College Oxford as part of a research fellowship in the arts, exploring the links between psychological wellbeing and creativity.
He also founded and runs Oxford’s independent art school Art Courses Oxford, which specialises in developing innovative and assessable ways people can explore art and their own creativity.
Kieran studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. BA (hons) and PGCE Brighton University.
His work is held in many influential and distinguished collections internationally.
