€145
Star Lot: A fabulous original oil on canvas painting titled "Keem Bay Achill" by the artist Alan Kenny. Features a view of the titular bay rendered in soft brushstrokes in tones warm tones of green and blue. Kenny has a broad and varied style and sells well at auction, his works fetching into the early thousands.
MM: 54 x 64 cm in frame.
Alan Kenny is an Irish artist whose thirty-year career has involved dramatic periods of stylistic innovations and bracing artistic breakthroughs. Initially a painter in the plein air tradition, his earlier naturalistic landscapes maintained stylistic connections to conventional academic modes of expression. However, Alan's impulse to tame and organise Ireland's recalcitrant countryside by remodelling and regulating elements such as trees, rocks and cloud formations was clearly visible. This technique offered a somewhat uniformed and idealistic appearance of rural Ireland and it was after many years of painting in this fashion that Alan abandoned the strictures of traditional Irish landscape painting to develop his own, American-flavoured dream-like vision. By combining his abilities as both a skillful draftsman and accomplished painter, Alan has managed to synthesize the lessons learnt from his earlier, more-literal approach with his own unique style. Today, he is recognised for his colourful, imaginative and largely narrative paintings, which boast a vast array of themes.
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