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SUMMARY:Cornerstone: Ken Horton
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nKen Horton (b. 1940) grew up in Huyton and attended Pre
 scot Grammar School. His father was a keen landscape artist\, so Ken was i
 ntroduced to art from an early age and his interest grew. At Grammar Schoo
 l\, he met his childhood friend Stuart Sutcliffe (a famous Liverpool fine 
 artist). Both pupils enjoyed working together in the art room under the su
 pervision of their art teacher Willliam Walters.\n\nAt 16 Ken left school 
 and started work as a trainee technician at Liverpool University Medical S
 chool. At this time Stuart was studying at Liverpool College of Art in Hop
 e Street\, and encouraged Ken to apply\, which he did and was accepted.\n\
 nAt Art College\, Ken worked in various departments before focusing on the
  study of Painting under the tutelage of Arthur Ballard. The curriculum in
 cluded life drawing and compositional studies. Following graduation\, Ken 
 spent a further year training to be a teacher and from there embarked on a
  forty-year career working in several Liverpool secondary schools teaching
  ceramics and art.\n\nAlongside this\, Ken continued to produce his own wo
 rk in painting and sculpture which was informed by early 20th Century arti
 sts such as Picasso and Brâncuși. During the 1970s and ‘80s he exhib
 ited work at St George’s Hall\, The Neptune Theatre and as part of June 
 Furlong’s “Merseyside Artists” exhibition series which took place at
  venues such as the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Building\, University of
  Liverpool’s Senate House\, The Mersey Docks and Harbour Building and ot
 her venues.\n\nAfter painting a succession of figurative works often with 
 a surrealistic and photo-realist approach\; during the 1980s he became fas
 cinated by the power of vibrant colours and in a particular brand of abstr
 act expressionism known as Orphism pioneered by the painters Robert and So
 nia Delaunay. Ken’s mature work\, displayed in this exhibition\, uses on
 ly straight lines and circles. Using a variety of techniques\, Ken takes a
  constructivist approach in which the finished works emerge without forwar
 d planning. His colourful works are exciting\, vibrant and multi-layered. 
 Despite their abstract nature\, his paintings often reference organic form
 s especially birds (Ken is a keen nature photographer and ornithologist).\
 n\nKen has embraced the opportunity to present this retrospective exhibiti
 on which includes paintings from 40 years ago through to very new work com
 pleted over recent months.\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Cornerstone\, Hope Creative Campus\, Shaw Street\, Liverpool\, L6 
 1HP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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