Ken Lochhead, 70, Scottish architect and artist
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Ken Lochhead
KEN LOCHHEAD Architect and artist
Born: 9 May, 1936, in Milngavie, Glasgow. Died: 15 August, 2006, in
East Linton, East Lothian, aged 70.
KENNETH James Ludovic Lochhead, the elder of two sons of John ("Jack")
and Agnes ("Nancy") Lochhead, died peacefully in his sleep at home,
East Linton, following a two-year struggle to recover from a major
brain haemorrhage.
Shortly after his birth, Ken and his parents moved east to Haddington
where he spent the next eight years attending the then Knox Institute.
The family then moved to what was to become the permanent family home
in North Berwick where Ken attended the local primary school before
concluding his school education at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
After leaving school, Ken studied architecture at Edinburgh School of
Art where he won travelling scholarships to Sweden and to Italy,
winning a silver medal. It was during this time that he met and
married Sheila. After graduating, he was employed as an architect with
Crudens, in Musselburgh, where he and Sheila began their family.
After 12 years with Crudens, Ken took the decision to become a
full-time watercolour artist, exhibiting and selling both original and
printed works. Famous for his landscape and beach scenes, his main
influences were Chinese and Japanese art, Turner and the Scottish
Colourists. He constantly strived to convey the idea that "less is more".
In the late 1970s, he was a founding member of the Group of Lothian
Artists and also Lothian Crafts. His brother Alan, still living in
North Berwick, was able to procure a retail outlet there for Ken's
work. The Lothian Crafts Group also brought back to life the Old
Smiddy in Gullane, selling the works of a number of Lothian craftsmen.
At the same time, Ken was president of the Edinburgh Photographic
Society, another art form in which he demonstrated a considerable
amount of talent.
Establishing his name as a prolific artist, Ken returned to
Haddington, this time with his own family. While there, he and Sheila
ran a coffee house and gallery before upping sticks and moving yet
again, this time to East Linton where they were to settle, opening
another gallery in the village.
In recent years, Ken tutored in watercolour, locally and elsewhere,
and his works continue to be exhibited and sold all over the world.
Ken himself rarely travelled far from the shores of his beloved
Scotland. Many holidays were spent touring and camping on the west
coast. To become a favourite location was the island of Lismore, where
he and Sheila would regularly spend a month or so, often visited by
family and friends. His art classes at nearby Port Appin were eagerly
anticipated and well-attended.
Ken and Sheila did occasionally venture further afield, visiting
relatives in Cyprus and Africa. More recently, Ken, with Sheila, was
able to renew his acquaintance with Italy, making a couple of trips to
Florence.
Outwith his artistic activities, Ken was a keen historian, spending
considerable time in tracing his family roots. He was also an active
member of the local history society in East Linton.
The combination of his interest in Scottish history and artistic
talents resulted in the production of a series of pictorial maps of
Scottish regions.
A keen crossword solver and pub-quizzer, Ken's extraordinary capacity
for retaining the most trivial facts and figures never ceased to amaze
and amuse those around him. He was a humorous person, his humour
sometimes dry and dark, but he also enjoyed the practical joke. In the
early days, the children would, on the completion of the latest
original, have great fun in trying to find the mouse that Ken would
have secreted somewhere in the painting.
A man of great determination, Ken maintained throughout the months
following his brain injury that he would walk again, though that was
never to be.
Unassuming and sensitive, but a person of undoubted artistic talent
and generosity, Ken was a man whose work and other interests brought
him into contact with an wide range of people; his principal aims in
life to help and to please others. In addition to the physical legacy
he will leave behind in the form of his many paintings, his memory
will live long in the hearts and minds of all those who were
privileged to know him. Above all, he was a devoted family man and he
dearly loved, and was adored by, his wife, brother, five children and
ten grandchildren.
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Not the following "Ken" Lochhead:
From: "Hyfler/Rosner" <rel...@rcn.com>
Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Subject: Kenneth Lochhead; one of Canada's foremost modernist artists
(Globe and Mail)
Date: 23 Jul 2006 22:21:23 -0700
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Globe and Mail
KENNETH LOCHHEAD, ARTIST AND EDUCATOR 1926-2006
One of Canada's foremost modernist artists, he discovered abstract
expressionism while studying in the United States and brought it home,
writes SANDRA MARTIN. Later, he was one of the leaders of the Regina 5
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From: debd...@comcast.net
Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Subject: Kenneth Lochhead, Painter, 80
Date: 18 Jul 2006 09:37:20 -0700
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Regina Five artist Kenneth Lochhead dies
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | 10:24 AM ET
CBC Arts
Painter Kenneth Lochhead, who helped put Saskatchewan on the national
arts scene map with the Emma Lake workshops and as a member of the
Regina Five, has died. He was 80.
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