The work of Ken Hamilton and Paddy Campbell celebrates the grace, strength and vulnerability of the female form. Hamilton is a well known classical-style portrait painter who studied fine art at Belfast College of Art, rejecting modern art movements and seeking to restore some of the ancient, often discarded values of painting. He says “I want my paintings to be contemporary and also timeless; realistic yet representing an unreal world; almost touchable but totally beyond our reach; as plain as day but still mysterious.” Paddy Campbell retrained at the Florence Academy of Art, working in the traditional "Renaissance" style. He studied anatomy to understand how the body functions and was taught to concentrate on proportion and to represent everything in the most thorough way. His detailed bronze sculptures that are produced using a lost wax method. In 2007, Campbell sculpted the official portrait of the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese and he has often exhibited work in the RHA.
Ken Hamilton & Paddy Campbell
Gormleys Fine Art - Belfast - 20th May - 3rd June 2010
251 Lisburn Road, Belfast Tel: +44 (0)28 9066 3313
Irish Art
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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