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Celebrated UK artist to paint for Cotton Tree

Monday, March 16 2009

RENOWNED British artist Sydney King, member of the Royal Academy, arrives in Trinidad tomorrow. He is being hosted by Cotton Tree Foundation in St Ann’s, through which he will stage an exhibition of his work, host a Master Class with students from the University of the West Indies, and work with children (7-10-year-olds) to paint a large mural which will be on permanent display in the Cotton Tree’s main hall at their headquarters in St Ann’s.

Support will be provided for King by the IN2ART Gallery, located at Alegonda Flats in St Ann’s. All proceeds of the exhibition of his work will be donated to the Cotton Tree Foundation towards their work in the development of under-privileged children and those with learning disabilities for which classes are already in progress. In this regard, King will be working with these children on a large mural, as part of their development programme.

Lancashire born, Sydney King was awarded a scholarship to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University and has lectured on Modern Business Art at a Swedish Summer School at Ballilol College, Oxford.

He has held design consultancy positions with several international banks and in addition is a student of stained glass design. He has studied the masters of renaissance Italy, the stained glass of France and the paintings of Matisse, Picasso, Miro, Klee and Modigliani.

Much of his work is in the homes of private collectors and corporate collections in the USA, London, Canada, Europe and the Middle East.

King is married to Spanish wife and muse, Maria-Victoria (Nena) and has three children - Jeremy, an architect working in Rome, Jose, a photographer based in London and a daughter, Lucia, an artist and film maker based in London and India.

The dates of Sydney King’s exhibition are March 26 and 27, at the IN2Art Gallery, St Ann’s from 10.30 am to 5 pm. The public is invited.