Kenny harris artist biography

Ireland, April 2020:  

            The paintings in this body of work explore the interiors and landscape of Ireland, mostly centered around a few grand houses and castles we visited as we circumnavigated the island.  Ireland has always captured my imagination: a green land full of history, and maybe just a little magic.

            My wife, painter Judy Nimtz, and I began our 6 week painting trip in Dublin.  From there we rented a cottage for a month out on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula in West Cork, near a town called Bantry.  This was a remote corner of the country, wild and beautiful, and we ventured out to paint the landscape and coastline.  In Bantry we visited the Bantry House, an 18th century grand house overlooking Bantry Bay, and I was granted permission to paint on-site.  From those studies and references I was able t