Every so often I feel like featuring one of my favourite artists on my blog. Today is the turn of Paul Henry. I love his simple atmospheric style.
Paul Henry (11 April 1876 – 24 August 1958) was a Northern Irish artist who painted the west of Ireland landscape with a spare post-impressionist style. He was born in Belfast, the son of a Baptist minister. He studied art in Belfast before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and at Whistler's studio. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and returned to Ireland in 1910. From then, until 1919, he lived on Achill Island and learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to the West of Ireland. In 1919 he moved to Dublin and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters. He separated from his wife in 1929.
A painting by Paul Henry was featured on the BBC show, The Antiques Roadshow which was aired on the 12th November 2006. The painting was given a value of approximately £40,000 - £60,000 by the roadshow. It actually sold for an astonishing 260,000 euro in December 2006.
