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7 Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927) WILD FLOWER MEADOWsigned lower left
oil on canvas
51 x 41cm (20 x 16in)
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Private Collection
€4,000-6,000 (£3,478-5,217)
As a student, colour made a deep impact on Webb, colour in nature and in natural forms, the form itself being of less interest.
Since those early days he has been experimenting with his own free romantic ideas and concepts, using direct colour in a
subjective expressionist manner. Colour is an all-embracing experience which pervades the whole of the painting. Throughout
his career, Kenneth has been fascinated by a variety of themes. He gets hooked onto an idea, becomes almost obsessional in
exploring it, and has to paint his way out of it. “Whenever I am taken by a theme, I seem to have to start all over and invent my
own pictorial structure”.
These pictures are deeply personal, evocative of his remarkable garden in Connemara, and of the blanket bog around his home
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landscape. There is a real sense of place about his work, the place being Ballinaboy which is for him magical, full of mystery,
sensuality and colour. The artist needs an emotional element in his paintings which gives them an atmosphere and a mood.