Paul Henry (painter)

Paul Henry (11 April 1876 – 24 August 1958) was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape in a spare Post-Impressionist style.

From then until 1919 he lived on Achill Island, where he learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to the West of Ireland.

[6] Henry designed several railway posters, some of which, notably Connemara Landscape, achieved considerable sales.

Although he appears to have stopped experimenting with his technique after leaving Achill, and his range is limited, he produced a substantial body of fine images whose familiarity attests to their influence.

[citation needed] He died at his home at 1 Sidmonton Square, Bray, County Wicklow, and was survived by his wife, Mabel.

Plaque to Paul Henry, University Road, Belfast, which erroneously gives his year of birth as 1877
Landscape is representative of Henry's style, balancing realism and modernity in reducing the landscape of western Ireland to its essential elements. Features such as the turf stacks and hills are synchronised in a technique influenced by his study with Whistler . [ 2 ]