McKee
I think I have blogged about Pete McKee before. Let me see... Yes! Go here . He is a fifty nine year old Sheffield artist who found his own, distinctive style some years ago. His work is much loved in this city and many homes display original McKees or prints of his work. A typical painting by Pete McKee - "Spit and Polish" He grew up on the Batemoor housing estate to the south of the city and attended a secondary school where I used to teach. In fact, he was there at the same time as me in the early eighties. The city's Weston Park Museum honoured him last year by inviting him to curate an exhibition of his own work and through the past eleven months that particular gallery has been very popular. I had been before with the granddaughters but I vowed to go back on my own so that I could soak it all up without distraction on a quiet midweek afternoon. That absorption day was Wednesday of this week. Pete McKee based this painting on a seaside photo booth snap ...