K evin Mc Namara was born in Manchester of Irish parents but was brought up in Ireland. He studied art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, where he took his degree in 1985. A year before leaving college he had his first exhibition when he was included in the 'Emerging Artists Show" organized by Guinness Peat Aviation, and that same year same year he took part in the influential ' Young Artists' exhibition in Dublin. Since then he has shown regularly in group exhibitions in Ireland, England, and the United States.

 

He has also worked on a number of portrait commissions and in 1992 painted a mural for the Irish Pavillion at the Seville Exposition. Artists who have influenced him are Velasquez and the nineteenth century Russian painters Ilya Repin and Valentine Serov.

Kevin McNamara's subject matter is mainly landscape and figurative. He is fascinated by the way in which light affects the atmosphere and mood of a scene and hence our relationship to it. In his paintings there is intense realism. Despite an impressionistic approach, the colors, seen at a particular moment in time, becomes the primary focus of his endeavours.

 

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