Kenneth Webb (b.1927)

The Irish landscape artist Kenneth Webb was born in London, in 1927. He studied drawing and fine art painting at the Cheltenham/Gloucester College of Art (1948-52), exhibiting at the Royal Academy (RA) in 1949 - before becoming Head of Painting at Ulster College of Art, Belfast (1953-60). There, his assistants included Tom Carr, John Luke and Colin Middleton. In 1957, Webb founded the Irish School of Landscape Painting, and over the next 30 years has shown his paintings in numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and North America.

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Webb worked at Queens' University Belfast From 1960 to 1970, after which he gave lectures at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery in London. He has shown his work in numerous Irish art galleries and museums since the early 1950's, holding one-man shows at the Kenny Gallery and the James Gallery, Dublin, every two years. In addition, Webb has exhibited with the Cork Arts Society, the Solomon Gallery and the Oriel Gallery, Dublin, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (RUA) and the Metropolis International Gallery d'Art, Geneva. In the UK, he has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI), Belgrave Gallery, London and the Wren Gallery, Oxford. He has also regularly exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA). Acknowledged influences in his approach to landscape painting, include the English Romantic Landscape artists from William Blake to the present day. Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Ivan Hitchens are also key influences.

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Kenneth Webb has had several retrospective exhibitions, at such venues as: Mall Galleries, London (1972); Alexander Gallery, Bristol (1972); Kenny Gallery, Galway (1990), and was the subject of a 1999 award winning film documentary "Kenneth Webb - A Life in Colour" Made by Donal Haughey. Webb's works are represented in public and private collections of Irish art throughout the Republic and in the United Kingdom.

More Information About Visual Arts in Ireland

• For details of other landscape painters, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
• For more about art in Ireland, see: Irish Art Guide.

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