Keith Salmon

 

 

Snow, Rock and Water, Haris May
graphite on paper
2013
70 x 70cm


Keith Salmon is a blind artist. Born on December 9 1959. In 1989 his sight started to fade. He is legally blind but can still see a little. A little before this he earned his BA in Art at a college in England. he is an avid rock climber despite the fact that he is blind. Most of his paintings are from his walks in the Highlands in Scotland.   In 2009 he won the Jolomo award for Scottish landscape painting, according to The Amazing Art of disabled Artist website. I choose this artist because his paintings were so unique. This is just one, I would have liked to show many of his works. They intrigue me because for a second it looks abstract, then when I looked closer I realized it was a scenery piece. I think his take on what he sees is great and gives me a different look at nature.

"I hope that you, can connect with these paintings, and have as much fun viewing them as I had painting them."
-Keith Salmon

http://www.keithsalmon.org/about-keith-salmon/