HOLT, England — He is Britain’s most talked- about young artist. His paintings fetch hefty sums, and there is a long waiting list for his eagerly anticipated new works.
Kieron Williamson is still getting used to the spotlight. He fidgets a little when asked to share his thoughts on art.
“Cows are the easiest thing to paint,” said Kieron, who has just turned 8. “You don’t have to worry about doing so much detail.”
Paintbrush prodigy Kieron — dubbed “mini Monet” by the British media — is a global sensation. All 33 of the pastels, watercolors and oil paintings in his latest exhibition sold, within half an hour, for a total of 150,000 pounds ($235,000). Buyers from as far away as the United States lined up overnight outside the gallery, and there is a 3,000-strong waiting list for his landscapes of boat-dotted estuaries, snowy fields and wide marshland skies.
His parents, Keith and Michelle Williamson, are bemused, proud and a little anxious about their son’s talent and its effects.
“It has been overwhelming,” said Michelle Williamson, a 37-year-old nutritional therapist. “Keith and I don’t paint, so we find it difficult to know what’s going on inside his head.”
