View Darlington's Artwork T H E A R T I S T

Born in a coastal town of North Wales,Kerry’s passion for art was inspired by a love of beautiful old picture books (Rackham, Dulac and Beardsley were favourites and later on,Pre-Raphaelite painting and Art Nouveau). This developed into a degree in illustration in 1996, originally intended to lead to a career in book illustration.
Following University she worked in S.Americabefore returning to the U.K. to work as a designer and illustrator for an exclusive company, specializing in sculptured clay murals for private residences in the Middle East, United Arab Emirates and theU.S.A.
Kerry now works independently from her studio at home in North Wales, using all of these influences and her flexibility to create pieces of art in a variety of subjects.

T E C H N I Q U E
Kerryworked for years in pen and ink perfecting her drawing skills before diversifying into watercolours and later, a variety of mediums, acrylic and oil. Following her experience with the clay murals, she became interested in painting upon heavy textures and experimented widely to produce original effects.
Her acrylic paintings are uniquely formed upon board or canvas first, using
textures and gesso. The colour is then built with several transparent layers to create depth. Her abstract pieces were initially based upon satellite photographs of Earth which created the 'Volcanic' Collection in 2005/2006. This has since diversified to include contemporary landscapes and figure-work, all carrying her unique style.

P R E S E N T A N D F U T U R E
Herwork has become increasingly sought after by collectors, in 2007 shewas a finalist in the 'Best Up-and-Coming Published Artist' category inthe Fine Art Trade Guild Awards, as voted by UK Galleries. Since thenshe has become one of the bestselling artists in the U.K. withcommercial work being exhibited in many galleries.

Her work continues to evolve, and she is currently working with figurative paintings, using her unique style alongside realistic figure painting and portraits.
She also works with designers to create absolutely unique, luxurious pieces of art for an exclusive clientele.

CARING FOR YOUR PAINTING - Advice from Kerry

Caring for your painting is easy. The resin will attract dust over time, which can be dusted off using a soft new paintbrush or a micro-fibre cloth. (I always encourage people to touch the work, for which you can buff off fingerprints with the micro-fibre cloth).

'My paintings are heavily textured, layered and the resin is applied by hand. The resin I use is actually a thick varnish and is not supposed to represent glass. With the 3d work in particular, it is quite impossible to have a completely pure 'glass' finish, the works will often contain bubbles and dimples or raised spots within the resin. These are caused from the texture raising up through the resin, they are not imperfections and should be expected. Furthermore, the reason I use texture is to make the paintings more tactile, so I use thin layers of resin to show that.
For my paintings which do not have the 3d pieces embedded, they will have less bubbles etc but it cannot be comparable to glass as again, it is not applied