Greg KapkaFine Art

The Depressed Person - oil on panel, 365mm x 215mm © 2014 ——————— With paraphrasis of The Depressed Person, a short story collected in the ever trenchant David Foster Wallace‘s book Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.  Email me for availability. ———————  Dymo Study (more info): ——————— Colour Study (more info): ———————

Heterochrome (Fraser & His Self Portrait) – oil on panel, 230mm x 280mm © 2012 —————— Brag: When this picture was accepted into the 2013 BP Portrait Award, I was asked to write a couple of paragraphs about it for the powers that be to paraphrase it for the little info plaque that sits alongside the […]

l’Aquarelle - oil on Panel, 230mm x 180mm © 2012 ——————— The rather fun little watercolour in this oil painting was of a “Burning Embers” Begonia which was covered in loads of the most vibrantly orange flowers I’d ever seen and which, under the combined might of the wind and my neglect, lasted for all of […]

Miniature (Study) – oil on dibond, 40mm x 40mm © 2012 ——————— Practising my miniature painting chops, and using dibond for the first time. The surface is amazingly smooth but I don’t know about the long term adherence of primers to it yet. As ever, click images to embiggen. Email me for availability. ——————— Framed:  ——————— […]

Back to the Blue House – 0il on Panel, 9″ x 11″ © 2012 ——————— This is one of the seventeen oils from my half of “Project Cathedral” – the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral which Fraser & I put on this year (click to embiggen!) The polaroid shows the magnificent eastern aspect of the Cathedral, which is often overlooked in favour of […]

Joseph Ruston – oil, approx. 30mm tall (detail from a much larger painting) —————— This portrait of Joseph Ruston is a detail from a much larger Project: Cathedral painting, exhibited earlier this year in Lincoln Cathedral. His links to Lincolnshire are many but the more obscure  one which prompted his inclusion in one of my paintings is […]

Toward The Crossing – oil on Panel, 9″ x 11″ © 2012 ——————— This is one of the seventeen oils from my half of “Project Cathedral” – the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral which Fraser & I put on this year (click to embiggen!) Anyone visiting the cathedral can’t help but be impressed by the view of the […]

Despite the sunshine, I’ve been chained to my easel working on more Project: Cathedral pictures this weekend: And after a fecund day scrutinising a polaroid of the rather impressive sculpture at Lincoln’s Drill Hall, I then spent some of my evening queuing under the thing itself whilst waiting for beer. Unfortunately it was long (the queue, not the […]

For an oil painter, I am fairly well obsessed with watercolour – especially as a means to just throw some colour about without really worrying about the outcome. It’s quite relaxing really after painting so tightly all day. But anyway in a strange fit of I don’t know what I bought this piece of hideous […]

After All One Never Knew Now Did One – oil on panel, 260mm x 560mm © 2012 —————— This year’s B.P. Portrait Award rigmarole took a back seat to Project Cathedral procrastination, and so passed by largely unnoticed. Except for the hole-in-the-wallet side effects the award induces – what with the entry fees climbing each year, […]