KEENE.STUDIO

The Black Paintings

KEENE.STUDIO

PHOTOGRAPHY

KEENE.STUDIO

PHOTOGRAPHY The Road to Egypt. A little north from Pandamatenga, Botswana, Africa. 2007. Annelize Bester "Kemetse" for "The Children of Botswana" - photo by Bhekimpilo Michael "The Hare" from Tobias Keene's "The Black Paintings"

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A SERIES OF CANVASES DEFINED BY EXPANSIVE DARK SURFACES

Paintings

The Hare

Panda & I

Girl on a Golden Chair

Skipping Girl

The Skipping Girls

The Maypole

Queen Victoria

Jan Sharp

2023

ARTHUR KEENE

The Globe Theater, with the Thames and St Paul's Cathedral.

Arthur Keene (1930 – 2013) was commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for the 1981 extension of the Shakespeare Center.

#KeeneOnArt

The demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

JOHN RUSKIN

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

JOHN RUSKIN

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

JOHN RUSKIN

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression

JOHN RUSKIN

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

When inspiration doesn't come, I go halfway to meet it.

Sigmund Freud

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Marc Chagall

The most important thing about art is to work Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Steven Pressfield

Painting is easy wen you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

A good artist has less time than ideas

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