Kenneth Le Riche

Formerly a student at Leith School of Art in Scotland, Kenneth went on to graduate from Edinburgh College of Art and subsequently the Masters Program at the New York Academy of Art, in the USA, where he graduated with a distinction.

Kenneth has taught drawing and painting at the Leith School of Art and the Edinburgh College of Art and has run a number of art painting courses near Barcelona. 

Art residencies have been at the Leith School of Art, at Odd Nerdrum’s Studios in Norway, at the Amagansett School for the Arts in the States and at Mohtaraf Remal For Arts, Jordan.

He has exhibited in Israel, Jordan, Spain, the UK and the USA.

There are two related strands in Kenneth's work: that which is from observation and that which is from the imagination. They inform each other. The former observational work is figurative and the latter is studies of imaginary spaces and forms using perspective and sometimes arbitrarily constructed symbols, like letters, arrows, arches.

Both strands are concerned with the relationship between the abstract surface and the illusion, and the main objective is to get that relationship 'to feel right'. A feeling of latency where the process of something almost having been given form but not yet actually quite complete, is intrinsic to the work: a vulnerability where a thing's existence could still be taken away from it.