Alan Kingsbury

Alan Kingsbury was born in London in 1960 and began painting in oils at the age of nine.
He studied psychology and art history at the University of Wales, taking his degree in psychology in 1982 and pursued a further year of full time study of art history in London, specialising in old master and modern European painting.

In 1983 he was offered a student internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice which enabled him to paint and study the art and architecture in the city. Following this he took up the post of cataloguer of modern paintings at Bonhams fine art auctioneers in London. During this time he was able to view hundreds of pictures per week in galleries and auction houses thus gaining a wide knowledge for detail and effect in painting .

In 1986 Kingsbury left London to pursue his career as an artist. Initially he returned to Venice where he worked daily outdoors, painting oil sketches of the architecture in varying light conditions. At the end of this year he moved to Dumfriesshire in Scotland where he spent the subsequent five years developing his painting style and refining his technique. It was here that he began to compose his characteristic imaginative figure subjects.

In 1991 he moved to West Cornwall , where he now lives with his wife , the abstract painter Morag Ballard , and their two children.

Alan Kingsbury is an elected Academician of the Royal West of England Academy.