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This second volume of original art painted and illustrated by Jan Kalinski (1956 - 2022) features much of his final work along with some of his favourite paintings over his latter years. From his studio in Kent Jan’s work still features across the globe in galleries, private collections and occasionally at art auctions. Jan suffered from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for the last 30 years of his life but never gave up clutching his brushes even without feeling in his fingertips. The paintings like himself capture something of Jan’s intricate and sometimes simmering perplexed soul as one of a life’s rebels meandering down those winding hedgerow lanes and roads in the garden of England.
Featured here together for the first time are a remarkable quartet of acrylic and oil paintings in stunning colourful definition of Liverpool’s Fab Four Beatles - John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Excerpt:
Jan Kalinski the Kent based artist died on Remembrance Day 2022.
In 1992 Jan was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) resulting in permanent numbness of his fingers. When he could no longer hold a fine pencil or write his own name he would never let go of a paintbrush and never stopped creating remarkable images and found working in the new digital mediums exciting.
Jan produced hundreds of paintings, illustrations and cartoons and whilst his social media platforms may still have a presence where some of his art can be viewed, many original pieces will globally reside in galleries, private collections and occasionally find their way back into the public domain through art auctions. In life he was very generous to many by giving away lots of his paintings when his studio space was filling up.
Featured in this collection are several book covers, recent and older paintings that have not been seen or published before including striking individual portraits of Liverpool’s Fab Four Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo which also feature on the front cover.
I had known Jan for four decades stretching back into the early 1980s and to me he was many things. A friend and a very talented artist who had an intense relationship with his easel and brushes.
Through the two Kalinski Art volumes, hopefully these pictures capture and celebrate something of Jan’s intricate and sometimes perplexed soul as one of a life’s rebels meandering down those winding lanes and roads.