Painter · Born in 1936 - United Kingdom

John Kingerlee

United Kingdom

John Kingerlee, a self-taught painter from Ireland, crafts his own paints and draws on life in wild corners of Ireland. His style dynamically blends abstraction and landscape, dissolving boundaries between figuration and imagination with gestural techniques rooted in expressive, intuitive exploration. His paintings evoke a sense of wonder, inviting viewers to lose themselves in the miracle of seeing and being, capturing the meditative joy and unpredictability of creative chance. William Zimmer NY Times art critic for 25 years wrote a major essay on John Kingerlee's Head paintings. He wrote "they are portraits of The Everyman...they are compelling because they are at once spectral and obdurate, winsome stoic and expectant...they emanate from their surroundings: rough, built-up painted surfaces that resonate with the rugged landscape on the Beara Peninsula in west Cork Ireland. In the end persistence makes Kingerlees heads heroic.