Kenneth Webb
Description
In Fire and Snow, Red Sky Sunset, Marconi Bog, Kenneth shifts his attention from the time ravaged surface of the Marconi Bog to the vast theatre above. This painting marks a powerful transition in perspective, a gaze turned skyward toward a drama that unfolds not in the bogland, but across the heavens. The painting is inspired by the very landscape surrounding Kenneth’s Ballinaboy studio in Connemara, near the site of the Marconi Station, where the first transatlantic wireless message was sent in 1907, and where Alcock and Brown famously landed in 1919 after completing the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Here, history and nature converge beneath a sky ablaze. Sweeps of vermilion, crimson, amber and orange crash through a swirling mass of plum and violet, conjuring a moment of almost biblical intensity.