Ken Cosgrove was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland a city that would have a profound effect on the path he would choose.  He loved its magnificent architecture from Northern Gothic through Baronial to Victorian.  He even found inspiration in the tenements, picketing to save many of them from the wrecker’s ball.

He studied architecture at Glasgow School of Art and Graphic Design at Dundee Institute of Art and Technology.  It was at Glasgow that he first had the opportunity to draw the human figure and was awestruck by this masterpiece of design.  Under the influence of such eminent artists as Willie Bone, Mackintosh-Patrick and Joseph Sekalski, Ken became a master printmaker and draftsman.

In 1967 Ken came to Canada, working as a graphic designer in Toronto.  In 1968, he started the Graphic Design and Architecture programs at Niagara College.  He earned his Masters Degree in 1973, specializing in curriculum design.  He then developed a three year Visual Creative Art and Design program at Niagara College.

Throughout the years, Ken has exhibited his prints and drawings across the Niagara Region and Southern Ontario.  To share his passion for life drawing, he has developed an intensive workshop “What Euclid Never Told You” which provides an out of the box experience for all interested in learning to draw and to see in a different way.

Since his retirement in 2001, Ken considers himself liberated.  Inspired by a long hiatus traveling through Europe, he has completed an Italian series of illustrative drawings, a life drawing series, Women at Windows (now in a private collection) and has recently embarked on a series of landscape paintings.  His most significant work to date an edition of five linocuts, The Deprofundus Edition, is now nearing completion.

Liberated indeed, Ken is experimenting with new media, new techniques and above all, a new focus on his own artwork.  He is still passionately involved in sharing his love of life drawing, teaching in his community and further afield.