Keith Grant visited Norway for the first time in 1957, while he still was a student at the Royal College of Art in London.
In 1960 he was the first British artist to receive a Norwegian government grant administered through "The British Council". This gave him the opportunity to spend a whole year in Norway where, in addition to studying at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, he also got to experience the Norwegian nature from south to north, as well as study Norwegian art and culture.
This year, the well-known art publisher Lund Humphries is launching the book about Keith Grant's life and work as a visual artist. The author of the book is the eminent critic of art and music, Dr.Judith LeGrove. Keith is primarily a landscape painter and has drawn inspiration especially from the Arctic and Subarctic regions. It is the elemental and wild landscape combined with light and space that for him creates the feeling of the cosmic origin of the earth.
Keith Grant lives and works at Gvarv in Midt-Telemark, an excellent place for a visual artist to have as a base. Here he has the opportunity to explore and be inspired both by nature in Telemark and other parts of the Norway.