Wonderful BOB McKenzie original (60x45cm) @ a LOW opening!!

An original oil painting, 60 x 45cm, on board by Bob McKenzie (1938-) - unframed.  A meshing of impressionists and loose realists formed the platform of his early work.  He would classify himself as an impressionist/ realist.  However, he believes the greatest influence was from Dino Parravano, the great Italian artist who lived in South Africa and now lives in the U.S.A.   Bob Mckenzie was fortunate to spend some time with him and his most lasting advice was never to become known as one who paints the sea, or only paints wildlife etc. “Paint anything and everything, you’ll enjoy some subjects more than others but you’ll learn most when you’re out of your comfort zone.’’

He tends to find himself selecting subjects based more on the quality of light than the subject itself.  When travelling his camera is always at hand.   He only uses his own photographs and although they are important, they only give him a structural reference.
Nothing can replace the personal experience of having been there. At the risk of sounding over the top, he needs to “smell the dust’’ as it were, to be able to contribute that extra dimension that will hopefully be the soul of the work, separating it from
a purely mechanical reproduction of someone else’s experience. It’s also a beautiful excuse to take yourself off to exquisite places and in reality his trips to Central Africa and Zimbabwe etc have yielded work that would never otherwise been contemplated.

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