Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 12th November 2018

108 91 John Kingerlee (b.1936) Kilcatherine Grid (2005-2007) signed, titled and dated 2005-2007 on reverse oil on board 38 x 46cm (15 x 18in) Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist; These Auction Rooms 14th September 2015 Lot 70; Private Collection €4,000-€6,000 (£3,571-£5,357) John Kingerlee was born in Birmingham, England in 1936. After living for twenty years in Cornwall, he moved in 1982 to an isolated farmhouse on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. He found this place of rocks, seas and majestic skies where nothing is static, to be a source of continuous spiritual invigoration. Kingerlee’s alternative outlook on life somehow seems to be in complete harmony both with the space he inhabits and with the art that flows from his palette knife and brush. He has turned his back on the traditional way of seeing and depicting landscape - as a series of parallel planes that are made to appear to recede from foreground to background by the artist’s manipulation of linear and aerial perspective. Recognising that perspective itself is a mathemati- cal construct. Kingerlee takes a different approach that is as radical as it is original. He states that he wants his art to recreate the experience of being in and moving through the landscape.