A 68-year relationship between an artist and a gallery is rare, but that is how long the painter Kenneth Webb and Kenny’s have been working together.
Since he first walked in their door in Galway, both the gallery and the artist’s work have gone through many changes. One thing has remained constant - Webb’s love of colour. Now 94 years of age, the artist still finds colour is fresh, magical, and exciting, and induces in him great bouts of painting. Indeed, his work has been described as a “homage to the secret life of colour”.
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Geometric Bog, oil on canvas, by Kenneth Webb.
His daughter Susan has inherited her father’s passion for art, and held her first exhibition at 18. Since then she has developed a serious reputation as an accomplished artist, specialising in equestrian paintings. She also runs The Irish School of Landscape Painting in Wicklow.
The new exhibition at the Kenny Gallery, Webb² (Webb Squared ), sees Kenneth return to some favourite subjects - the bogs and bog pools, the wildflowers, and rocks of Connemara; and for Susan it is a series of images of horses racing, hunting, grazing, ponies in the landscape, along with striking images of Galway.
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The Long Walk, Galway, oil on canvas, by Susan Webb.
The exhibition runs at the Kenny Gallery in the Liosbán Industrial Estate until September 8. Gallery opening hours are 9am to 5pm (Mondays to Saturdays ). Admission is free and all are welcome. See https://www.thekennygallery.ie/gallery/
