Biography

Kevin Feary, a self-taught artist, has had a life-long love affair with drawing and painting. Kevin graduated from a small high school in western New York and immediately followed a musical path that spanned 10 years. While playing and performing he created Superior Drywall and Painting, Inc. - a construction business - married, and raised a family of four children, Rickelle, Chad, Kevin II and Hannah. The drywall and painting business proved to be successful and supported his family for over 20 years...but the siren's song of bristle against canvas remained with him and in 2003 he began to do meditative drawings in the morning before work. This practice re-ignited his love of art until finally, Kevin could no longer quell the growing need to draw and paint. In 2005 he began serious studies with teachers such as Kathryn Bevier, Steve Carpenter, and Christian Kolupski while maintaining SD&P Inc. In his studies Kevin has recreated multiple master copies driven by a desire to learn from the old masters. He has taken workshops with Mau-Kuhn Yim, Stephen Early, Darren Kingsley, and most recently Robert Liberace. With a desire to give back, in 2009 Kevin made a decision to teach figure drawing and painting at community galleries and to paint full-time. Inspired by the creative spirit Kevin proposed to the love of his life, Cheryl with a painting of a ring.

Kevin is a member of The All Weather Gang, signature member of the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters, signature member of the Rochester Art Club, founding member of the New York Figure Study Guild, and an associate member of the Oil Painters of America. Kevin has been juried into multiple shows including finalist in the 2010 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition and a finalist in the Artist's Magazine 25th Annual Art Competition. He has won numerous awards in a relatively short span of time such as Best in Show for a body of work in The Rochester Art Club Figure and Faces Exhibition 2010. His work is collected throughout the United States.

"In my work I desire to capture the trueness of a subject whether it is the majesty of nature or intricate subtleties found in a living soul. If I have put down in paint, pencil or charcoal the truth about what I see and feel; if I translate a visual reality onto a piece of linen with paint and convey the same feeling to you; then I know I have accomplished my work...to touch another soul!"