Award-winning, partially-sighted Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon has just returned from another successful trip to Germany. Keith spent two weeks in Speyer, one of Germany’s oldest and most beautiful cities located next to the river Rhine. Invited back after a successful residency last summer, which saw him live and work for four months in Speyer’s Künstlerhaus, Keith’s new work made its way over in October to the same venue and he and his partner Anita flew out to open the exhibition on 19th October.
Keith is clearly taken by the city’s ancient streets and architecture. Last year he drew a large sketch of the city’s Dom (Cathedral) which was purchased by a local restaurant owner. That owner has since opened a big new hotel, restaurant and wine studio on Speyer’s main street, just 400 metres from the Dom, and has hung Keith’s drawing in the dining area (see below). It means thousands of people will see Keith’s work over the next few years, bringing him much-deserved publicity.
Keith sold half a dozen of his paintings while in Speyer, a great success, and he hopes that he’s also made his own small contribution to the Scottish tourist industry – many visitors to the exhibition commented that they’d have to now visit Scotland having seen Keith’s landscapes.
More evidence too of cooperation between REVEAL artists. We’re delighted that Keith used one of Craig McGuire’s photos taken during the REVEAL photoshoot in summer 2011 on his invite cards to the German exhibition. Many people were asking who had taken the picture and Keith included Craig’s website link on the card. This is what we at REVEAL Scotland like to call ‘Value Added’.
Keith found time too to explore a little further the Rhine-Neckar region, walking one of the trails through the vineyards and hills to the south of Speyer and visiting for a day the beautiful university city of Heidelberg, nestled in the picturesque Neckar valley (left).
iKeith is now back in Scotland and can’t wait to get back to his studio in Irvine, having not painted for several weeks. The short nights and the cold are closing in these days but there’s no rest for this prolific artist – we look forward to seeing some new depictions of the Highlands in winter from Keith soon.
Visit: www.keithsalmon.org for all Keith’s latest news and images of his latest work.
