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Kennys since 1940

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Midnight's Children

Exhibition of Paintings
by Kenneth Webb
August 7th - August 28th 1998

Midnight's Children - Kenneth Webb

#1 Midnight's Children
26x60"
Oil on Canvas

Colours Are the Wounds of Light - Kenneth Webb

#2 "Colours Are the Wounds of Light" (Blake)
26x60"
Oil on Canvas

#3 Dreamtime
26x60"
Oil on Canvas

#4 Elysian Fields
36x48"
Oil on Canvas

Sighle-na-Gig with Poppies - Kenneth Webb

#5 Sighle-na-Gig with Poppies
24x36"
Oil on Canvas

Iris and Wild Flowers, Errelough - Kenneth Webb

#6 Iris and Wild Flowers, Errelough
46x36"
Oil on Canvas

Reflections, Ballinaboy - Kenneth Webb

#7 Reflections, Ballinaboy
30x48"
Oil on Canvas

The Veil Lifts - Kenneth Webb

#8 The Veil Lifts
16x40"
Oil on Canvas

Sunset Bog - Kenneth Webb

#9 Sunset Bog
30x40"
Oil on Canvas

#10 Dragon Hill, Ballinaboy
40x20"
Oil on Canvas

#11 Guardian from the Past
48x36"
Oil on Canvas

Wild Flowers, Poll Revagh - Kenneth Webb

#12 Wild Flowers, Poll Revagh
30x48"
Oil on Canvas

Heavenly Blue - Kenneth Webb

#13 Heavenly Blue
20x30"
Oil on Canvas

Ballinaboy Garden - Kenneth Webb

#14 Ballinaboy Garden
16x24"
Oil on Canvas

Faerie Poppies - Kenneth Webb

#15 Faerie Poppies
30x20"
Oil on Canvas

#16 Madonna
24x16"
Oil on Canvas

Summer Haze - Kenneth Webb

#17 Summer Haze
20x30"
Oil on Canvas

Poppy and Iris in a Meadow - Kenneth Webb

#18 Poppy and Iris in a Meadow
20x30"
Oil on Canvas

Summer Profusion, Errelough - Kenneth Webb

#19 Summer Profusion, Errelough
24x16"
Oil on Canvas

Wild Flower Meadow - Kenneth Webb

#20 Wild Flower Meadow
20x30"
Oil on Canvas

Montbretia at Poll Revagh - Kenneth Webb

#21 Montbretia at Poll Revagh
24x36"
Oil on Canvas

Iris by a Pool - Kenneth Webb

#22 Iris by a Pool
20x30"
Oil on Canvas

Blue Iris - Kenneth Webb

#23 Blue Iris
20x16"
Oil on Canvas

#24 Lace Cap by a Pool
20x24"
Oil on Canvas

The Sky has Fallen - Kenneth Webb

#25 "The Sky has Fallen"
20x50"
Oil on Canvas

Sunlit Poppies - Kenneth Webb

#26 Sunlit Poppies
24x36"
Oil on Canvas

The Dancers - Kenneth Webb

#27 The Dancers
20x16"
Oil on Canvas

Chorus Line - Kenneth Webb

#28 Chorus Line
20x24"
Oil on Canvas

Jig Saw Bog - Kenneth Webb

#29 Jig Saw Bog
30x40"
Oil on Canvas

Lily Study - Kenneth Webb

#30 Lily Study
20x16"
Oil on Canvas

Blue Grass and Poppies - Kenneth Webb

#31 Blue Grass and Poppies
20x30"
Oil on Canvas

Poppies in a Field of Gold - Kenneth Webb

#32 Poppies in a Field of Gold
30x20"
Oil on Canvas

Flamenco - Kenneth Webb

#33 Flamenco
24x36"
Oil on Canvas

Scherzo - Kenneth Webb

#34 Scherzo
20x24"
Oil on Canvas

Forest Poppies - Kenneth Webb

#35 Forest Poppies
20x31"
Oil on Canvas

Into the Bog - Kenneth Webb

#36 Into the Bog
40x20"
Oil on Canvas

#37 Ablaze
18x12"
Oil on Canvas

#38 Windblown
16x20"
Oil on Canvas


When Kenneth Webb bought an old cottage in Ballinaboy near Clifden, some twenty-five years ago, he intended to use it as a summerhouse only. He had not taken into consideration the fact that Connemara would weave its magic on him. His long walks into the blanket bog nearby opened his eyes to unexpected aspects of the landscape – the wonderful surface textures created by a profusion of natural forms of flora, the subtleties and nuances of colour enhanced by constantly changing light, abandoned and flooded bog workings, the reflection of cloud and skies.

The growing stimulus he received from the bog was paralleled by an interest in the wild garden that came with the cottage. This was an area of rock, bog and self-seeding wild flowers, "natives", which have since been kept and cultivated. These flowers have become an obsession – daisies, purple loosestrife, montbretia, irises, fuchsia and heather. Kenneth has built a pool which is full of waterlilies, and surrounded by miscellaneous plant forms on the water's edge. This rich tapestry is accentuated by extraordinary trunks and roots of bog oak, which provide fantastical shapes and forms.

The wild garden and the bog are the inspiration for this exhibition, which also marks the return of the poppy as a major preoccupation in Kenneth’s work. Some of these "poppy-scapes" have become very emotive and have evolved into an important series of Sheela-na-Gig paintings.

Kenneth Webb was born in London and grew up in Gloucestershire on the Welsh border. He lectured in the Belfast College of Art for some years before moving to Ballywater in County Down, where he founded the Irish School of Landscape Painting.

Please note that the images in this on-line catalogue were shot on location and thus some reflections can be seen from the glass of the paintings.


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