In 1966, at the age 14, Kevin Geary won an award from the Royal Drawing Society of Great Britain.
10 Facts About Kevin Geary
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Kevin Geary contacted Leslie Gilbert Illingworth a political cartoonist for the Daily Mail and Punch.
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Kevin Geary became acquainted with Prime Minister Edward Heath after calling on his offices in the House of Commons and presenting the staff with one of his drawings of Heath which Heath later bought.
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In 1973 Kevin Geary had painting lessons with Carel Weight and studied colour theory and anatomy.
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Kevin Geary's poetry writing started in the 1970s after he was encouraged by Stephen Spender who read one of his poems in London.
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In 1986 Kevin Geary moved to the United States of America, first living in Seattle, Washington, then Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, California, Hudson, New York and Scottsdale, Arizona.
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In 2003 Kevin Geary exhibited at the Cathedral Center for the Arts in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Kevin Geary moved to Sedona, Arizona in 2000, and moved to the nearby Village of Oak Creek, Arizona in 2008.
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Kevin Geary read from his book Paris and Other Poems at the Sedona Arts Center on 6 August 2010.
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Kevin Geary's portraits include those of Vladimir Ashkenazy, Count Basie, Leonard Bernstein, Jack Brymer, Cyril Cusack, Placido Domingo, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Lord Goodman, Henry Kissinger, Senator John McCain, Golda Meir, Princess Michael of Kent, Ivor Newton, Sean O'Casey, Pope John Paul II, John Williams, and Harold Wilson.