Biblography

Paul Kelly, born in Dublin in 1968, Paul started painting and drawing at an early age, and since then has gone on to establish a wide reputation both here in Ireland and abroad.

Completely self taught, Kelly paints in a conventional pre-impressionist style in both oils and watercolour. Known for his paintings of north county Dublin with its busy fields, market gardens and small harbour’s he has been regularly traveling all over Ireland in search of new inspiration and even further a field with painting trips to Morocco, Prague, Budapest and Venice.

He has had many successful one man “sell out” exhibitions at the Gorry Gallery in Dublin, The Killarney Art Gallery in Co. Kerry and regularly exhibits in selective group shows around the country. He has also exhibited frequently at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, and in 1991 obtained the James Kennedy memorial award for portraiture.

Works by him are included in many public and private collections including the national self portrait collections of Ireland, The Fingal county library and the Brian P. Burns collection USA.

In 1999 he was included in the “Who’s who in Ireland” and a Buyers guide to Irish art. In 2000 his painting “The Liffey Rowers” was exhibited at the John F Kennedy centre for the performing arts, Washington. In 2004, with the kind permission of the Lambay island estate he exhibited a body of work entitled “Lambay, portrait of an Island” which was received to great public and critical acclaim. He continues to work and exhibit in Ireland…