Gordon King
Biography
Gordon King, MSAID, was born on 6 June 1939 in London and spent the war years in Fife, Scotland, at the home of his father. After the war, the family returned to England and settled in Reading. He studied Life Drawing and Painting at Reading University Art School, and later trained as an Illustrator at Carlton Studios. At 22, he became a Freelance Artist working for major magazines and advertising agencies, illustrating books and developing his portraits and paintings. In 1966 he moved to a studio in a Buckinghamshire village. A series of limited edition prints was featured on “Collectors’ World” on BBC television, and a limited edition of prints from an original oil painting was commissioned by Douglas Dunhill, Inc., of Chicago to commemorate the Bicentenary of American Independence. Solomon and Whitehead have reproduced his watercolours in print form, The Medici Society has reproduced his paintings as greeting cards, and an oil painting featuring 43 riders was commissioned by the Garth and South Berks Hunt which they also used as a signed print. A number of publishers have produced signed limited edition prints of one of King’s favourite subjects, girls in a garden or floral setting, using mainly his daughter and friends as models. Gordon King has had several one-man exhibitions, including the Hunter Simmonds Gallery in Westbourne, where over forty original paintings were sold and many Limited Edition Prints. Gordon also regularly exhibits at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Also, many galleries throughout Britain, the USA and Europe exhibit his paintings which are now collected internationally. He specialises in figurative work, portraiture and sporting subjects.