"I love working with chalk pencils because you can mix the colors with a high degree of sophistication. The effect of these pencils seems to evoke a beautiful vintage quality"
Aaron Kasmin is a British contemporary artist, born in 1963 and based in London. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and has exhibited in London, Paris and New York.
Working in various mediums, including watercolour, pencil and oil paint, his preferred method is chalk pencils: "you can mix colours together endlessly and they can be used very finely for detail. With paint it would be far too fussy, drawing is a much more immediate medium" says Aaron.
The works are often images of great formal elegance: spare, hard-won, small in scale but full of quiet power. Aaron works with coloured pencil on paper. His favoured motifs are everyday objects. He makes us see them anew. In his artworks he tries to convey the pleasure and beauty of looking. He composes small images which play with scale, balance, space, colour and harmony. The mood and character of each work is determined by the imperfections of the human eye recreating and interpreting exactly what is in front of it.
“What I am trying to convey in my work is the pleasure and beauty of looking. I compose small images which play with scale, balance, space, colour and harmony. I enjoy the idiosyncrasies of the freely drawn line. The mood and character of each work is determined by the imperfections of the human eye recreating and interpreting exactly what is in front of it.”
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Sims Reed Gallery, London
2016 Sims Reed Gallery, London
2015 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York
2015 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2010 Piers Feetham Gallery, London & Aldeburgh
2008 Metropolitan Room, London
2006 Catherine Rubin, Paris
2001 Archeus Gallery, London
1996 Harriet Green Gallery, London
1995 Groucho Club, London
1994 Clove Two Gallery, London
1989 Albermarle Gallery, London
1988 Albermarle Gallery, London
1987 Gallery 24, London
1986 Artist Of The Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2010 Caroline Wiseman Gallery, London
2010 Piers Feetham Gallery, London
2008 Caroline Wiseman Gallery, London
2007 Caroline Wiseman Gallery, London
2005 Caroline Wiseman Gallery, London
2005 London Art Fair
2004 Caroline Wiseman Gallery, London
2003 Flowers Central Gallery, London
2000 Eagle Gallery, London
1997 Harriet Green Gallery, London
1997 Flowers East Gallery, London
1993 Albermarle Gallery, London
1992 Albermarle Gallery, London
1992 Knoedler Gallery, London
1991 Knoedler Gallery, London
1989 Contemporary Art Society, London
1988 Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London
1987 Contemporary Art Society, London
