A rare opportunity to visit Kieran's studio at the top of the yellow tower on the Island at Folly Bridge where the Thames splits into two. Kieran has worked here for over 20 years. From the roof terrace It has panoramic views overlooking the whole of the Oxford basin.

Kieran’s paintings begin outside, often in the landscapes of Cornwall, where he originally trained studying Fine Art at Falmouth. These works are then developed and refined over subsequent weeks in his Oxford studio. Layers of oil paint are superimposed with fractured marks, dashes and splatters that capture the spirit of a continually changing landscape. These evocative images are full of vitality, fizzing with life and electric colour. As Kieran puts it: Colour is exciting and experimenting with it can provoke all kinds of questions. Life is abstract and vision can be beyond conventional realism. This way of working allows me to paint what I feel and imagine, not what I know.
Browse and Darby, Cork Street, London (solo exhibition catalogue).

Kieran lectures at The Ashmolean Museum Oxford in connection with their major exhibitions, and in 2019 was Visiting Research Fellow in the Arts at Merton College, Oxford, where his exhibition ‘Lightscape’ curated by Flora Fairbairn was listed as a Top Pick in the Saturday Times by Rachel Campbell-Johnston. As part of the research fellowship, he explored the links between psychological wellbeing and creativity. His work is represented by Browse and Darby, Cork Street, Mayfair London. This year he was artist in residence at 'on form 2022' exhibition of stone sculpture at Asthall Manor, Burford, where he created large format paintings of the gardens and sculptures for a sell out exhibition curated by Flora Fairbairn where over 800 visitors attended.
He also founded Oxford’s independent art school Art Courses Oxford, which specialises in developing innovative and assessable ways people can explore art and their own creativity. To book workshops visit www.kieranstiles.com
Kieran has written and produced short films for The Ashmolean Museum Oxford University, and also The St Ives School of Painting where he is also a visiting tutor.
Kieran studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. BA (hons) and PGCE Brighton University.