New show celebrates a six-decade relationship

Arts Week with Judy Murphy

At 90 years of age, artist Kenneth Webb is still going strong and his latest paintings can currently be seen in the Kenny Gallery at the Liosbán Retail Park in Galway City, in a  joint exhibition with his daughter Susan.

A 64-year relationship between an artist and a gallery is rare a rare thing. but that is how long Kenneth Webb and the Kenny Gallery 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.

Kenneth has painted his way through a variety of themes and has a world-wide reputation. In all those years there has always been one constant in his work, colour! For him, even at 90 years of age, colour is still fresh, magical and exciting, and induces in him great bouts of painting. A dedicated painter, he is constantly driven to bold new experiments in painting.

He started to share that skill with Susan when she was about three years old, finding her to be a keen student. Susan held her first solo exhibition when she was just 18 and has since gone on to develop a reputation for her equine paintings and studies of animals. She has received many important commissions from the horse world and still manages to find time to run the Irish School of Landscape Painting from her studio in Ashford, County Wicklow.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.