'Faultless': One of Keiron Williamson's watercolours captures weathered cottages in a Norfolk street with a tremendous sense of perspective
Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX
Any painter would have reason to be proud of these stunning watercolours of the picturesque Norfolk coast, with their evocative atmosphere and understated beauty.
But for Keiron Williamson they represent a massive achievement which has left art experts astonished.
After all, he is only six years old.
Keiron turns seven this weekend and is holding an exhibition of his paintings at a professional gallery in his home town of Holt, Norfolk.
Most other children his age paint pictures of houses, people and animals that are bright and bold but - understandably - lack perspective, proportion and subtlety.
But Keiron's pictures are evidence of an incredibly mature eye and a truly natural touch.
Prodigy: Keiron was inspired to start drawing boats on a family holiday in Devon and Cornwall
They have not been achieved without hard work, however.
According to his mother Michelle, Keiron had no interest in art until a family holiday last May.
Up to then he had been 'a typical boy who goes at about 200 miles an hour' and whose idea of fun was playing football or riding his bicycle. He still loves sport and playing on his X-Box, but art now takes pride of place.
On holiday the Devon and Cornwall scenery inspired him to draw boats in a children's sketchbook - and when he got home they caught the eye of family friend Carol Ann Pennington, who runs a gallery and is an artist in her own right.
Evocative: Another of Keiron's paintings captures light, reflections and a flight of birds above beached boats
Compare and contrast: A windmill, as committed to canvas by Keiron
Since then Keiron has taken a 12-week course in watercolours and he now throws himself at his work with a determination far beyond his years.
Ms Pennington said: 'I have known Kieron since he was a baby but I'd no idea he had it in him. His work is absolutely phenomenal and he is so dedicated that he gets up at the crack of dawn and paints until he goes to school.'
Keiron is a daily visitor to her Holt gallery, the Last Picture Show In Town, she told the Eastern Daily Press. 'He is always looking at other artists' work and although he's not copying, it's as if there is a camera in his head and he's taking it all in for future reference.'
Light touch: Washes of colour say it all in this landscape by dedicated artist Keiron
Country scene: River marshes are brought to life with careful brush strokes
Rival Holt gallery Picturecraft is planning to show Keiron's work in the winter and its manager Adrian Hill described him as an 'absolutely fearless' artist who 'paints like someone who has been painting for years'.
Norfolk artist Bryan Ryder, who taught the watercolour course, said: 'I've never met anyone of Keiron's age who can do what he's done. I just can't fault him.'• Keiron's work is on show at the Last Picture Show In Town, Cromer Road, Holt, Norfolk, from Sunday.
Country life: A village scene interpreted by Keiron
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An English Watercolor Master in the Making
At 7, Kieron Williamson Only Discovered His Love of Art Last Year; But England Has Already Discovered Him
By Richard Roth
Up-and-coming artist Kieron Williamson is a painting prodigy who's taken the art world by storm. Richard Roth reports on Williamson and his source of inspiration.
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Kieron Williamson has churned out a succession of landscapes and village scenes that have critics decades older raising their eyebrows. (CBS)
CBS) The surprise for the Williamson family came during last summer's vacation, when Kieron - who was just turning six - asked for something different to play with.
"I think Kieron was inspired by the landscapes," Kieron's mother Michelle Williamson recounted to CBS News correspondent Richard Roth. "He asked us to buy him some blank paper and some pens while we were down there."
He began to sketch, and then to paint, and he's been at it ever since. He learned some technique in a local watercolor class before he turned seven this month.
Spurred on by images on the Internet and in art books - and the postcard-perfect outdoor studio that's all around him in Norfolk, on England's east coast, Kieron Williamson has churned out a succession of landscapes and village scenes that have critics decades older raising their eyebrows.
"I was the youngest in the class," recalled Kieron of his only formal training ever. "Everyone else were grownups." Asked whether that bothered him, he told Roth that during class, he simply "didn't think about 'em."
Now, when he's not on the Xbox, his mother says he's at his paint box.
"Kieron will get up at six o'clock, maybe a little bit before, and everything is here in the kitchen for him. He'll come and set up and we're often woken up with the chinking of the jam jar and we know he's painting," says mum Michelle.
In fact, the whole country knows. For his hometown's summer festival, Kieron's work is the featured attraction at a local gallery, drawing fans from all around England. Kieron says that makes him proud.
The English landscape here has been an inspiration to artists for more than 200 years. Part of Norfolk's fame comes from painters who've celebrated its coastline and its countryside.
In a place that's produced a distinguished tradition, Kieron's talent is just developing.
"He could be great, of course he could," says local gallery owner Carol Ann Pennington.
He's working at it. The hardest part, he says, is getting the shading right - the balance of light and dark.
But he is confident he'll master even the elusive shades. How? Simple: "Practice, a lot."
At seven, he's got time.
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