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Overview
"Whenever I am taken by a theme, I seem to have to start all over and invent my own pictorial structure"
Kenneth Webb is widely regarded as one of the preeminent landscape painters of the past century. Over the course of a distinguished career spanning more than seventy years, Webb’s artistic practice has undergone several important stylistic and thematic evolutions. His work remains characterised by a continual spirit of innovation and a deeply personal engagement with the natural world.
At the heart of Webb’s oeuvre lies a desire to convey his own emotional and sensory response to the landscape. His paintings are not simply representations of place but are explorations of atmosphere, memory, and mood. Working in a bold, expressive manner, Webb has long prioritised colour as a central vehicle of meaning. Since his formative years in art school, he has embraced a highly individual palette, arriving at a visual language that is both luminous and immersive.
Webb’s achievements have been recognised through exhibitions at many leading institutions, including the Royal Academy in London. In 1957, he founded the Irish School of Landscape Painting and has since lectured at such esteemed venues as the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery, London. Today, Webb’s paintings are held in numerous international collections and are highly sought after by collectors around the world. Since 2010, Gladwell & Patterson have proudly represented Kenneth, during which time his monumental canvases have garnered acclaim among collectors in the United Kingdom, the United States, China and beyond.
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Works for sale
Kenneth Webb
GenesisOil on Canvas92 x 122 cms / 36 x 48 inchesSigned 'Webb' (lower right)Description
Genesis presents a dynamic evolution of Kenneth’s longstanding engagement with the bogs of Connemara. In this vibrant landscape, Kenneth reinterprets familiar territory through the lens of his later, more experimental palette, infusing the scene with electric hues reminiscent of his dystopian works, while grounding it in the structure and motifs of his earlier bog paintings. The composition recalls the vast, open plains and reflective pools that stretch across the peatlands near his Ballinaboy Studio. But here, Kenneth allows the colour to sing, shards of violet, amber, magenta and lime green slice across the canvas, dissolving the boundary between land and atmosphere. There is nothing static in this painting. Everything vibrates with motion, as if refracted through the damp air that defines this corner of western Ireland. The soft, diffused light of Connemara, a result of water in every state, from mist to bog to sea, becomes the very medium of the work. Light scatters, refracts and amplifies the hues Kenneth perceives so keenly.
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