DOUG KEMP FINE ART
Pop Art Online Gallery
POP ART PAINTINGS
Doug Kemp (Pop-art Doug) studied art at Walthamstow College of Art and was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art Schools in the sixties. He had a Fellowship of the Gloucester College of Art and was a senior lecturer at Loughborough College of Art and Design from 1971 to 1993. This online art gallery, hosts most of his work.
About This Online Art Gallery
This Online Art Gallery is dedicated to the work of pop-artist Doug Kemp and is a central repository for sixty years of paintings and artwork.
As of 2022, new work is still to be added and during the course of the year, we will improve the quality of some of the images, run free to enter print competitions, increase the Giclee print collection with new unposted work and provide more stories behind some of the paintings.
About The Paintings & Prints On This Website
Sometimes there is more than one piece of work with the same or similar title (each usually classified in a different series). Also, when working on a theme, occasionally the original title has been changed to protect the innocent. AKAs abound. This is not as confusing as it sounds – after all, this is a visual medium and seeing is believing. Have a look, make notes and ask!
Prints and The Print shop offer a smooth ride. However, if sufficiently interested in a painting, with a view to buy (no pun intended), just make a request on the contact page to be sent an in-situ. photograph and then to possibly arrange a “live” viewing, if required. Quite a lot of notice will be required to accommodate this, as this will include locating the piece if in storage.
Artwork Sizes
Later paintings (post 2000’s) are pretty much a standard size but some of the sizes of earlier works are goodish guesstimates, as Doug worked in feet and inches (and, from the scale of his works, lots of them) and many works are in not readily accessible storage with no accurate record of exact dimensions.
It should also be be noted that some pieces are not in Doug’s possession and possibly may not actually still be in existence.
Giclee Artist Prints
Spelt correctly Giclée is a French word for little squirt. This is a digital printing process in which a type of ink-jet printer is used with specialist inks to produce a high quality Art print. As an artist, I feel a Giclee/Giclée print produces a better finish than other types of modern artist printing formats.
Linocut Artist Prints
A Linocut is a relief print that is produced like a woodcut but uses lino as the surface from which the design is carved as a template used for the printing. In making a Linocut, basically your design uses the raised (uncarved) areas for the different inks to print the same picture over and over.
Silkscreen Print Collection
Creating screen prints – The inks are forced through a mesh screen onto the printed surface. This enables certain areas of the screen template to be impervious to the printing ink, in effect creating a stencil. The ink that is able to pass through forms the printed image.
Print Gallery Fly Through Video – 1 of 2
Doug Kemp print gallery collection fly through on YouTube, Part 1 of 2 . Subscribe and click the bell for notification for the next video release.
Heroes And Villains Pop Art Videos – Animated By BoodleBobs
As well as creating the Grannie Annie Ultimate Alphabet book childrens series, BoodleBobs is a video production service creating motion graphics and animation for web content and is run by Dougs son, Luke.
I wanted to bring these pop art superhero prints to life, by adding just a little bit of motion to each featured print. For the most part this was a photoshop exercise where the artwork was sepperated into layers and added to After Effects for the animation. The featured Villioness ‘Not Avon Calling’ needed more animation and this was achieved via Adobe Character Animator. Luke Kemp BoodleBobs
Gallery Collections
Six decades as an artist with nearing 500 peices of artwork from Doug Kemp on this online gallery. The gallery collections pages help sort this wealth of modern pop-art into some form of order.
Doug Kemp Pop Art By Decade & Format
Pop Art by decade and format. Ultimate Retro, some of Doug’s paintings are so old they could even be considered antiques in their own right.
About Dolly Silver’s curtains
“Dolly’s curtains were bright turquoise with red, yellow and black abstract shapes on them, much like stuff shown at the Festival of Britain.”
To begin the story properly we, Mum and I (Dad was called up into armed service) lived in Albany Road (Walthamstow, London), two rows of small terrace houses. Opposite our house, to the right, were the Silvers; Tom who walked around in constant pain from a wound from WWI, Dennis (Denny) who was my age (give or take) and Mrs Silver, Dolly, who liked a drink now and then at the Common Gate Pub on the corner of Queens Road. Dolly was a friend of my Mum’s who didn’t like to drink anywhere much.
Well, we went through the war mostly unscathed apart from the occasional firebomb, one landing on the doorstep.
Later, running for cover when there was a V1 raid with the ominous cut-out of the droning motor (we called them Doodle bugs or Buzz bombs), we finished up sheltering in the Gentleman’s Toilets at a local pub, meeting an indignant customer coming out. After a rapid explanation, he turned on his heels and invited us in!
So, World War 2 ended and the drab colours of life continued much the same, until one day in the very late 1940s or early 1950s, I went out of our front door and naturally looked across to Dolly’s and got a SHOCK that was like a physical bang; Dolly’s new curtains were bright turquoise with red, yellow and black abstract shapes on them, much like stuff shown at the Festival of Britain. Shocked, it was the very first time I had been properly introduced to colour and colour has been with me ever since. I still get a warm glow whenever I think of that day, Thank you, Dolly.
