Kieran Stiles

Kieran’s work has been exhibited at Sotheby’s London, The Saatchi Gallery, The Mall Galleries ING Discerning Eye award, and is represented by Browse and Darby, St James’s London since 2015.

In 2019 he was awarded the position of Visiting Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford University, where his work is held in the College’s permanent collection and was featured in the Saturday Times’ Top Picks, by Rachel Campbell-Johnston.

His work has been exhibited by curators Flora Fairbairn and Philly Adams, Saatchi Gallery Director.

Kieran lectures at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, in connection with their major exhibitions, at The TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College Oxford, Magdalen College Oxford, and Keeble College Oxford.

He holds a Fine Art BA (hons) degree, Falmouth University, and post graduate degree in art education, Brighton University.

“Award winning artist Kieran Stiles is one of the leading British landscape painters of his generation, committed to pursuing exciting new ways of painting and forming a visual language which is beyond conventional realism, and allowing for the unexpected with thrilling dynamism.

He spends countless days drawing and painting outside. As he navigates through the senses, rather than painting an exact copy of what he sees, he conveys a world of entrancing wonder through fractured marks, dashes, splashes and innovative painting techniques refined over many years of experimenting.

Some works are meditative, others explosive. What they all have in common, is a sense of how the raw charge of nature can affect the imagination in the moment. As he says, I try to show the extraordinary energy and verve found in nature. Just as a defibrillator can jump-start your heart, an explosive shard of light or violent collision of electric colour can ignite a painting and blow your mind. 

It is this rare ability to astonish that makes his work so special. Just as nature surprises us and takes our breath away, his painting has the ability
to grasp the viewer in an embrace that allows them to be present in the landscape with him”  Lizzie Collins, Zuleika Gallery.