John Kingsley was born in Glasgow in 1956 and studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art under Dr David Donaldson, James D Robertson and Geoffrey Squire.
He has since exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Glasgow Institute, Royal Scottish Society for Painters in Watercolour, and Paisley Art Institute (PAI) where he served as a Council member for more than twenty years before being awarded the Diploma of the PAI in 1999.
He was a finalist at the Hunting Art prizes in London on five occasions: his work being Highly Commended in 1996. Among many other awards he won the Paisley Art Institute prize in 2003, the Reid Kerr College Award for painting in 2006, both at the PAI and in 2013 he won the Watermark Award at the RSW. In 2015 Elected Member of RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour).
John has exhibited widely throughout the UK, in particular in London at Duncan R Millar Fine Art and the Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton. He has also had solo shows at the John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh. John has worked closely with us at Fraser Gallery St Andrews for a number of years and we have hosted several successful solo exhibitions.
His work features in the collections of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Tommy Hilfiger, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, CMS (formerly Dundas and Wilson) and Sara Lee UK among many others.
He lives and works in Glasgow.