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Henry Blackmore is an Irish artist & sculptor, currently dividing his time between Dublin and the South of France. Henry exhibits with a number of galleries in Ireland and abroad, but can be contacted directly here.
Henry Blackmore fell in love with painting only after torrid affairs with electronic engineering and subsequently with lyrical poetry in other lifetimes long past. Henry is renowned for his love of light, both natural and man-made. Light is the beginning of everything – light dictates colour, texture, tone, so that the paintings have a life of their own.
Henry’s paintings are notable for another feature altogether hidden from first viewing – it is the presence of ghost-like figures and faces within the painting that add a new meaning to what is first seen so that the paintings have a “living” quality that ordinary works don’t share!
All artists are influenced by those that created before them down through the ages, so also Henry. From the Magdalanian cave painters in pre-history down through the stained glass artists of the medieval period and on to the greats such as Rembrandt and Turner, all have had their influence on his work.