The Whitley Art Gallery, Enniskerry, Ireland

Mark Kennedy Biography

Mark Kennedys background and influences are rich and varied. From the fjords of Munch and Strindbergs Norway where his ancestors, the Johannesens lived, through a blood mixing in Scotland where his fathers Uncle was General Eoin ODuffy, to the marshes of Hackney in London`s East End where Mark Johannesen Kennedy has lived most of his life. Mark has studied in depth the techniques of his trade which started with house painting with his father, continued with close examination of the great masters of paint, such as Goya, Velazquez, Manet and Turner, and continues to this day with meticulous attention to his trade.

What Jean Genet said of Giacometti could possibly have been said of Mark Kennedy: `The art of Giacometti it seems to me, seeks to discover that secret wound of every human being and even of every object, in order that, that art may illuminate those beings and objects

Mark J Kennedy is a very un-English English painter

You will find works by Mark in both the Contemporary Painters and the Prints pages.