Kenneth W Padley, FBIPP, FRPS, FRSA (British, 1926-2006)
Kenneth Padley was born in Lincolnshire in 1926. He excelled at art at school and was awarded a scholarship to Lincoln College of Art. He worked as a graphic designer, photographer and painter of wildlife and subsequently became Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Head of the Photographic Department at Loughborough College of Art. He was an important figure in that area of education at the time, unusually bridging the worlds of fine art and photography. Kenneth Padley was a fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers, a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of the Zoological Photographic Club. He is known for the meticulous detail in his animal paintings and accuracy in depicting their habitat and behaviour. He was a keen naturalist and an authority on the badger.
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