Ken Browne

"Ken Browne's new paintings offer a uniquely innovative approach to the landscape genre. In these highly evocative works, landscape becomes the vehicle through which the artist explores the realms of human emotion and the subconscious.

These meticulously crafted abstract paintings were inspired by the artists' experience of different Irish landscapes. These are not specific landscapes but a synthesis of natural scenes that the artist has beheld in the past and which have left an indelible mark on his imagination. The upper zone of each painting is dominated by skilfully-rendered, turbulent skyscapes. While these skies are impressively Turneresque in their grandeur, they are also unmistakeably Irish. They vary as only an Irish sky can vary, grey and misty one moment, warm and burnished the next.

However, to uncover the true emotional and psychological depth of these works, a more prolonged viewing is necessary. If the upper area of the work is defined by exuberant skies, then the lower area is defined by layers of dark and shadowy colour, suggesting that beneath these energetic skyscapes there lurks something foreboding. As the painting descends there is a gradual abandonment of realistic description in favour of areas of da...

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