ABOUT KEITH: LANDSCAPE ARTIST

An English art college graduate, Keith started his career at a leading London advertising agency in the vibrant Swinging Sixties, a youth-driven cultural revolution with London its very heartbeat.

Moving to South Africa he worked as an art director in major advertising agencies, first in Durban and then in Johannesburg, the then creative hub of the advertising industry.

Keith very soon went independent, establishing his own studio producing commercial art for international agencies. Over the next four decades, his prodigious body of artwork contributed to award-winning campaigns for major brands.

Towards the end of his career, Keith began experimenting with watercolour landscapes. This marked an important period of transition from commercial to fine art, in his work exploring wide-ranging subject matter, from the gently pastoral, through arid desert terrain to beachscapes.

Executed mainly in water-based oils on paper, Keith’s artworks are notable for featuring generous skyscapes as the backdrop to a range of foregrounds drawn from both personal experience and research. As well as water-based oils, he works in gouache and watercolours.

Today, still based in Johannesburg and free of the demands of the advertising industry, Keith works from his home in Parktown North, a heritage house, itself an inspiring environment.