John Kingerlee
Born in Birmingham in 1936.
In the late 1950's he met his wife Mo. John became a gardener and worked in Gloucestershire for the next few years in the Rudolf Steiner homes teaching children with learning difficulties gardening . At this time John was writing poetry. In 1960 they moved to Yorkshire and John managed an organic Flour Mill.
In 1962 John and his wife Mo and their family moved to Warwickshire and he started painting. During this time he worked in a nursery as a gardener. John rose at 4am every morning and painted until 6am before he went to work.
It was in 1962 when he decided to become a full time artist.
The Family then moved to Cornwall near Mevagissey where John continued to paint. He had his first solo exhibition at the Ewan Phillips gallery in London in 1967. During this time he travelled to Spain and Morocco. He stayed in Cornwall, with regular visits to London until 1982.
John and Mo travelled to Ireland that year and finally settled on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where he and Mo still live
John Kingerlee is one of Irelands leading artists and his meditative, intellectual work with his wonderful sense of colour brings great joy to the viewer seeing his work for the first time
For Kingerlee the material is the paint itself and in that respect he is not dissimilar in quality and style to the work of Blackshaw, McSweeney, Collins, Souter and Nancy Wynne Jones.
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