Reviews

May 10th 1992 - Landscapes Abounding, Patrick Gallagher, Sunday Independent,

"...Cross the street to the Gorry Gallery and you will find something rather more substantial. Again landscapes, these by a young man from the Village of Rush which by chance is no more than a hard gallop around the estuary from the mansion of the Cobbes. Paul Kelly is a startling mature artist, only 23 years of age and self taught, married with one child and painting in the cramped garden shed. Every one of his 62 pictures sold at his opening. When did that last happen in Dublin at a first exhibition?

He is a conventional landscape and portrait painter, a quiet colourist of plain scenes with more in his small canvases than you might think. His horizons are high in the frame, his boats and mooring posts and sad fields of North Dublin full of plain beauty and truthful colour. He finds himself in 1992 where Osborne was generations ago, although he is entirely his own man. When Paul Kelly builds a proper studio he will be able to paint on a larger scale but he is already an artist of satisfying completeness."