• Source: Kenneth King (artist)

      • Kenneth King (1939–2019) was an Irish marine artist, who was a Chaplain in the Royal Navy before he became a full-time artist. King's studio, Straid Studio-Gallery, was in Glencolmcille in County Donegal, Ireland.


      Work


      King was born in Dublin; his father was artist Richard King, who designed a Irish postage stamps and worked in stained glass.
      King specialised in depicting the naval and merchant shipping of Ireland, as well as seascapes of the country's coastline and lighthouses. He has been commissioned by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Irish Shipping, An Post, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the Maritime Institute of Ireland and the Office of Public Works.
      The National Maritime Museum of Ireland has paintings by King, of all but one the Irish ships lost during World War II. Irish Shipping had commissioned King to paint pictures of all their ships. When Irish Shipping was liquidated, the receiver sold the collection at auction. The Maritime Institute of Ireland acquired some of the paintings; they concentrated on ships lost during World War II. Later, at the instigation of Des Brannigan, then President of the Institution, the Institute commissioned King to paint pictures of the other Irish ships lost during the war. This collection is on display in the National Maritime Museum of Ireland. The collection lacks one image: the Naomh Garbhan which hit a mine off the Waterford coast and sank with the loss of three lives on 2 May 1945.


      Exhibitions


      Recent exhibitions by King include:

      2014 'Vitality of the Sea' exhibition of marine oils, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork
      2013 'Kenneth King: Saol agus Saothar' - An Gailearaí, Na Doirí Beaga, Co Dhún na nGall
      2012 'Bound for Blue Water' - an exhibition of marine oils, Rosses Point, County Sligo


      Bibliography


      Kenneth King, Life and Works by Marianne O'Kane Boal


      References




      External links



      1 artwork by or after Kenneth King at the Art UK site
      Local news article (Archived 2017-11-14 at the Wayback Machine) about Kenneth King on the Glencolmcille community website

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