Jonathan Kenworthy was born in wartime Britain. Aged eleven he attended the Royal College of Art in London before going on the Royal Academy Schools. Whilst at the Royal Academy he won ten scholarships and in 1965 he was the youngest Gold Medal winner for his carving in Portland stone of a lynx fighting with a wolf. During this time he also studied animal anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College, before going on the dissect wild animals in the Anatomy Department of University College, Nairobi.
His first selling exhibition was in 1965 at the Tryon Gallery, in London’s West End. It was a complete sell out and Kenworthy was free to travel and develop his creative skills and innovative approach modelling in clay and casting his work in bronze - he has held exhibitions in London and New York since 1965 to present day and has an international following of collectors, dealers and artists alike.

  
                   
               
 
In 1993 he was commissioned by the Duke of Westminster to create a sculpture to be placed on a lake in the gardens at Eaton Hall, in Cheshire. A second casting of the piece, depicting a lioness chasing a lesser kudu, was placed in Upper Grovesnor Gardens, in Central London. The thirty foot bronze was dedicated by the Duke to mark the opening of the gardens for the people of Westminster in June 2000.