Piers Killeen is a British painter and sculptor living and working in Scotland.
A Classicist, Piers work is inspired by his studies of Ancient Greek literature, especially Homer. Across Painting & Sculpture, his singular vision is a celebration of natural beauty and freedom .
About
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
Philosophy
αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν
Ever to Excel
Experiments
I’m always working with new mediums, exploring the connection between classics and modern life.
Currently developing a series of lifestyle sculpture inspired by Fayum mummy portraits.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.” - Seneca
Most of my time is spent in the real world, now known as ‘offline’.
Write me an email pierskilleen@gmail.com
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