Painting of the Week... "Summer Work" by Paul Kelly

"Summer Work" by Paul Kelly
For purchase within the European Union: €2950
For purchase outside the European Union: €2600
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Paul Kelly was born in Dublin in 1968. He started painting and drawing at a very early age, and since then has gone on to establish a wide reputation both here in Ireland and abroad.

Completely self-taught, Kelly paints in a conventional pre-impressionist style in both oils and watercolours. Known for his paintings of North Dublin with its busy fields, market gardens and small harbours, he has been regularly travelling all over Ireland in search of new inspiration and even further a field with paintings trips to Morocco, Prague, Budapest and Venice.
He has had many successful one man “sell-out” exhibitions at The Killarney Art Gallery, Co. Kerry and The Gorry Gallery in Dublin, and regularly exhibits in selective group shows around the country. He is also a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, and in 1991 obtained the James Kennedy memorial award for portraiture.
Works by Kelly are included in many public and private collections including the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, the Fingal County Library and the Brian P Burns collection, USA. In 1999 he was included in “Who’s Who in Ireland” and The Buyers Guide to Irish Art.
In 2000 his painting “The Liffey Rowers” was exhibited at the John F Kennedy centre for the performing arts, Washington. With the kind permissions of the Lambay Island estate in 2004 he exhibited a body of work entitled “Lambay Portrait of an Island” which was received to great public and critical acclaim, his last one man show. Paul continues to work and exhibit in Ireland.