Artist Lance Fennell has been getting creative for decades, delivering warm inviting ol work to canvas - and he has had works featured in the Royal Academy Summer show.
His base is Milton Keynes' picturesque Westbury Arts Centre, where visitors are welcome, by appointment.
Lance talked art with Total MK...
Mediums you work in: Oil mostly and graphite for drawings
What fuels your creativity? It's like scratching an itch!
1981 - 1986 Bath Academy of Art
1986 Graduates Show, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
(1986 - 2009 business career, ad hoc private art projects)
2010 Luton Art Prize, Winner, Wardown Park (Headlights near Padbury)
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Headlights near Padbury)
2012 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Taking a Call)
2013 One-man show, London Luton Gateway Gallery, Luton Airport
2013 MK Calling, Milton Keynes Art Gallery (Grafton Street Aqueduct, Two Swans)
2013 One man show, Granary Gallery, Weston Park
2014 Westbury Arts Centre – House Exhibition
2015 Westbury Arts Centre – House Exhibition
2018 One man show, Westbury Arts Centre
2018 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (Houses at Oxley Park, Two Cars)
The piece of work you have produced that you are most proud of, and why?
It's very hard to choose but Two Bridges maybe (below).
Did you choose art, or did art choose you?
I guess it chose me. Most kids do it and enjoy it; I just never gave it up
Career highlight
A couple of pieces in the Royal Academy Summer Show.
If you could invite three artists, living or dead, to create a masterpiece with, who would you choose?
Leonardo, Howard Hodgkin, Sandro Botticelli
Tell us about your creative ambitions?
I'd like to be able to survive off my work and not need the day job!
Where will we be able to see you at work/view your work
By arrangement, visitors are always welcome at my studio at Westbury and there is usually some of my work on the walls there. Also lots of work on the website.
Contact
Click to www.lancefennell.co.uk @lancefennell (Twitter) @lancekfennell (instagram)
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