A collection of 40 original paintings and graphics by renowned German artist Gertrude Degenhardt, will open at The Kenny Gallery in Liosbán on Saturday, February 11 at 3pm. The exhibition will run until St. Patrick’s Day in the gallery and online.
The show, entitled Flying Melodies, features new and retrospective works and is something of a greatest hits, featuring many images which will be well known to Irish fans of the artist. The show will be officially opened by music legend Frankie Gavin at 3pm on Saturday, February 11th. All are welcome.
Gertrude Degenhardt is one of Germany's leading painters and graphic artists. She first came to Ireland in the early 1970s when she was commissioned to prepare some illustrations for a German edition of a book of short stories by Liam O'Flaherty. She has produced a number of exhibitions for the Kenny Gallery over the years, including Women in Music - a series of some seventy images of female musicians, Vagabondage, And Passes By, Paradise Lost, Dancing Couples and It’s About Time.
Gertrude Degenhardt is a keen observer of people. Song and wine are frequent features of her work, as are revolution, vagabonds, dance, musicians, tramps, Ireland, and Martin Degenhardt, her late husband. Her ink, pencil lines, or graphic motifs sing, and her gouache or tempera application is always distinctive, purposeful, direct, lyrical and above all, beautiful.
The exhibition will run daily (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm ) until St. Patrick’s Day in The Kenny Gallery and online at www.thekennygallery.ie
