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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Painting of the Week... "Ophelia" by Ken Hamilton

"Ophelia" by Ken Hamilton
For purchase within the European Union €1800
For purchase outside the European Union €1600
To see this painting and more by Ken Hamilton
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Ken Hamilton was born and brought up in Nigeria, West Africa and it was here that at first hand he was exposed to the powerful force and form of African Art. His first drawings were encouraged by an Ibo tribal craftsman. Unlike the many European Artists of the 20th century, such as Modigliani, who were influenced by African sculpture, which had been exported from its native land, for Ken the influence was all around.

Ken has spent a considerable amount of time researching the techniques, mediums and pigments of the old masters which can be clearly seen in the gold grounds of some of the paintings exhibited here; harping back to the great Siennese artists of the 15th century and yet purely modern in tone, as Ken himself says 'I want my paintings to be contemporary and also timeless; realistic yet representing an unreal world; almost touchable but totally beyond our reach; as plain as day but still mysterious.'

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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
You can view more work by Paul Kelly here!

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.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Painting of the Week... "The Gift" by Joanne Taylor

The Gift by Joanne Taylor
For purchase within the Europena Union: €2250
For purchase outside the European Union: €2000
You can view all available paintings by Joanne Taylor here

"My earliest memories are of violent thunderstorms, giant insects, blue-headed lizards and steam trains hissing in the night above the rhythmic beating of wooden drums.

I was born in the middle of Africa, then northern Rhodesia, during "suicide month" in 1952. I grew up steeped in the overpowering vitality of the jungle, free as a monkey and virtually untouched by the physical and psychological worlds beyond the village limits.

My art, like any creative activity, is simply a reflection of process. I watch, bemused, as this mind plays its games. Essentially I see life as a joyful cosmic joke in which we unwittingly create our own limiting rules. Painting is for me a way of expressing a smile, a reminder not to take my 'self' too seriously."

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Painting of the Week...

"Guiding Ladies" by Ciaran Clear

Guiding Ladies by Ciaran Clear -
For purchase within the European Union: €6500
For purchase outside the European Union: €5800
You can view it on our website here!

Ciaran Clear was best known for his moonlight seascapes and Connemara coastal scenes of the west of Ireland. Over the years he developed a very particular style of painting the night sky . Shimmering silver cloud formations lit by a hidden moon over rural landscapes were typical of his work. Some of these paintings also contained women with lanterns looking out over the sea waiting for the return of their fishermen.

He was a founder member of the "Fingal Artists Group" (1963) which included Maurice Mac Gonigle (former President of the RHA), Fergus O'Ryan, Bea Orpen, Patrick Leonard and Tom Nisbet. The purpose of the group was to make art more accessible to the community by holding exhibitions throughout Leinster.

Over the years Ciaran exhibited with the Dublin Sketching Club, the Living Art, RHA and Oireachtas exhibitions. He was constantly involved in group exhibitions including one which brought the works of Irish artists to New York and Boston.
Ciaran painted to the last days of his life. His work was then and still is in great demand.

His paintings are in private collections worldwide.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New Paintings... And we are still on Plunkett Street!

After a few weeks closed to allow the opening of a new store on the ground floor of 5 Plunkett Street, the Killarney Art Gallery is now re-opened on the first floor, and you can come to have a look at these beautiful new paintings...