Second of 3 children born to Kenneth and Margaret
Kevin studied Social Analysis at the University of Bradford
Following a serious road accident in 1981, leaving Kevin with head injuries, he became diagnosed with a schizoid-affective disorder.
This left him as a revolving door mental hospital patient during most of the 1980's when he started writing poetry and painting.
Kevin describes his work as "Tortured Impressionism", as influenced by the French Impressionists and Vincent Van Gogh as he suffered similar schizoid tendencies.
He wrote a series of poetry "Wistful Witterings and Tosh" based on the misery of homelessness, depression and poverty during his dark days.
He also wrote a humorous book of ‘Loony Limericks’.
As a self-taught painter, Kevin has exhibited at Didcot Civic Hall in 2000 and The Town Hall Gallery, Oxford with AIMS.
In 2008 with ARTWEEKS with AIMS at Restore and a solo exhibition at The Mill, Cowley Road entitled, "Life's Landscape".
Quite coincidentally Kevin approached this webmaster's wife, Vivien Calkin on 7th June 2010 not knowing he was talking to a Calkin.
(She was staying in Oxford whilst on the last couple of days of a Psychology course.)
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