SRIK Homage to the impressionist
Acrylic on Cardboard
19x16in
$11,400
26 Artworks
Abstract Head
Acrylic on Cardboard
10x8in
$4,400
John Kingerlee
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
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.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Born
- 1936
- Mediums
- Painter
Hong Kong world film festival - Gold award- Hong Kong, China
Short documentary award- Bronze award- Los Angeles, United States
Visual arts centre / University of texas - Austin, United States
The Philips museum of art / Lancaster - Philadelphia, United States
The Parthenon / Nashville - Tennesse, United States
The Hite art institute / University of Louisville - Kentucky, United States
Morten Lauridsen, United States
Oklahoma musuem , United States
Irish arts centre, United States
Crawford municipal museum , Ireland
American Ireland fund, United States
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, United States
Larry Mullen collection , Ireland
Baton Rouge museum , United States
Appleton museum of art, United States
Anderson centre of arts, United States
Pillsbury collections, United States
National Art Museum of China, China
National museum of poland, Poland
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