Bob Kilvert

I haven't found much else on this artist, though he seems competent to say the least. I have no idea of his origins, where he came to learn his trade, I can't get hold of a copy of the book it is from anymore, even though I have viewed it in person much to my annoyance (I should've jumped at the chance to collect information on a piece of collage work I like) but alas, I have failed. Either way the mystery is something I love.

The piece itself is inspirational in its use of materia, however much of it looks/seems to be 'painted between the lines'. Whether consciously constructed with the imagery at play her, or totally misconstrued by myself to a higher sense of credibility, as if it doesn't deserve as much as I am giving it, the piece is subliminally suggestive of a lonely almost desperate elder, tattered and broken, seeking refuge in a tavern of some sort. The emotion conveyed are vague at best, though subtly they creep in, the more you view this piece as a whole and not just a collaged load of smaller images. I can only but assume it is due to the negative amount of facial features on show, that gives the work a subtle and quiet way of conveying its emotional content. This is just another way of backing the stark contrast of this work that I create.

“The Black Felt Hat” by Bob Kilvert, from Creative Collage Techniques by Nita Leland and Virginia Lee Williams.

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