Doug Kemp News & Updates

Sit back and listen - This heroes and villains pop art video was produced by Doug's son Luke using Adobe Creative Cloud

The hero of the paintings references a paparazzi photographer from the 1930s known as Weegree who had an uncanny ability to find and photograph a crime scene sometimes even before the police arrived.

Lady Lucan's name is Veronica Duncan.  And she was married to Lord Lucan, a British aristocrat and a notorious gambler who ran up huge gambling debts. Read the painting background art story.

In the 1950s people of the East end of London often went to places like Southend-on-Sea (people from “South of the river” had “their” Margate), which is actually little more than the Thames estuary.

This painting references Robert Franklin Stroud, who was also known as the “Birdman of Alcatraz"

Art story - Little Bohemia  45" x 50" inches acrylic painting on canvas by Doug Kemp.  This painting depicts the botched raid by the FBI (then called the Division of Investigation) against the John Dillinger Gang who were staying at the Little Bohemia Lodge

On January 21, 1937, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 40. Her body was not discovered until neighbours raised the alarm after complaining about her pet dachshund, Maxie incessant barking.

Madam Klang is a 1930s comic book villainess, her father an eye-patch wearing villain, missing half of his left leg, is a Chinese evil genius with ambitions of ruling America by destroying the US fleet with his infer-red heat ray.

Freddie Mills was a famous boxer in the 1940s and 1950s. One of the first working-class celebrities. Freddie Mills Painting on Canvas 50×45 Inches Art Story By Doug Kemp.

14 minutes depicts the sad tale of Ruth Ellis. She was the last woman to be hanged in England for the crime of murder. Ellis was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, on Easter Sunday 1955. She was hanged by state executioner, Albert Pierrepoint,

I came into the world at the very beginning of WWII, Except for the occasional flashes of the German Luftwaffe our world was coloured by browns muddy yellow ochre and muddy greens.

Art story - 'Angels 2 1933'  45" x 50" inches acrylic painting on canvas by Doug Kemp.  This painting is depicting the story of US Gangster  John Herbert Dillinger who was an American gangster active during the Great Depression.