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Ken Michael Kirkby

Ken Michael Kirkby (1940 - 2023) was active/lived in British Columbia, Oregon / Canada, Portugal.  Ken Kirkby is known for Landscape, mural painting, aboriginal stone symbols, environmental issues.

Ken Kirkby: Painter. Raconteur. Fly fisher. Environmentalist. Born Sept. 1, 1940, in London, during an air raid; died June 20, 2023, of cancer in Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island; aged 82.

I stopped to buy newspapers on the way to Ken’s. That was his only request. He wanted to know what the world was up to, even as he was leaving it. He smiled and put the Times Colonist and The Globe and Mail aside, not trying to stand, he was too weak for that, and apologizing for still being in his bathrobe, late in the afternoon. He managed, however, to tell some tall tales featuring himself. He always had time for that.

The last time I’d seen Ken Kirkby full of life he was standing on the porch of the small cabin he liked to rent on a B.C. trout lake. It was dawn and he was in his bathrobe, the same one, a coffee balanced on the railing, a small, faint blue cloud of smoke escaping him as he had his first cigarette of the day. He raised one hand, a salute, then swept his arm   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7884 characters.]  Artist bio

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