John Kilroy Fine Art Academy

Specialties

The John Kilroy Fine Art Academy is proud to announce the expansion of our atelier at The E.T. Wright Building in Rockland MA.

Our climate controlled classroom space has now doubled in size and we have a separate kitchen and large storage area. We can offer multi-​week projects for the serious learner.

We keep our class sizes intimate to create the true artistic atelier environment. We have solved the 3 hour adult education class problem and offer beginner, intermediate through high-​level, advanced, professional training that surpasses university instruction.

We invite you to be a part of our school for the discerning, serious learner and get what is unavailable elsewhere at the most reasonable rates.

Classes offered drawing, painting, pastel, sculpture, portrait & figure, design, computer graphics.

History

Established in 1992.

A professional exhibiting fine artist for over 30 years and a unique progressive teacher of drawing, painting, design and sculpture for 18 years, graduated from The Art Institute of Boston, studying with Norman Baer and Walter Marks.

Kilroy is especially influenced by the teaching and art of modern master Richard Schmid, John is a member of Richard Schmid painting group, The Putney Painters.

He has years of teaching experience and has developed a number of programs through the years.

North River Art Society

Braintree Art Association

Quincy Art Association

The Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, MA.

Fuller Craft Museum

The John Kilroy Fine Art Academy

The Scottsdale Artists School, Scottsdale, Arizona

The Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT

Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA

Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

The Creative Art Center, Chatham, MA

The Falmouth Artists Guild, Falmouth, MA.

His works has appeared in American Artist Magazine.

Meet the Business Owner

John K.

Business Owner

The essence of his artistic and teaching philosophy focuses on the «Live» experience and he incorporates accuracy of perception, combined with direct techniques in all media including music. Clear communication and design are essential as he stresses the effects of light on the subject. Executed both indoors and out, the main emphasis is on identifying the significant visual elements of color and structure translated through the particular media of the moment.

This combined with classical, academic and abstract fundamentals of design, drawing, painting and sculpture form the visual language of the modern as well as the «old masters».

John Kilroy advocates working from life, capturing the essence in his revealing portraits. Like many painters before him, he feels that every portrait, figure, still life or landscape offers the opportunity to evoke feelings of beauty, awe, reverence and character while maintaining the historic technical integrity of this distinguished craft.