Kevin Stanley was born in the Eastern Cape, South Africa in 1954, into a family of artists and musicians.
He started painting in 1981 and is a self taught professional artist.
Kevin has traveled the length and breadth of South Africa gathering ideas for his oil paintings of South African scenes. He studied African art in Johannesburg and has opened galleries in South Africa and in Guernsey.
He has developed a style of painting large landscapes and seascapes in oil with magnificently dramatic skies.