Contemporary Artist based in Kerry, Ireland. Portfolio www.ventrybeach.com
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Jenny McCarthy’s Summary
BIOGRAPHY OF JENNY MCCARTHY BY JENNIFER GOFF BA MA
Exploring Jenny McCarthy’s work is a step into art history. This Kerry based artist is self-taught. Her portfolio of her work explores a plethora of subjects; nudes, portraits, equestrian paintings, a series completed on the Armada, and Ventry landscapes.
Her work does not hesitate to explore tenacious stylistic movements from abstraction to Cubism. Instead it provides the viewer and collector a choice of diverse styles, colours, psychologies and compositional ranges. Embracing everything which surrounds her, this only serves to highlight her strength and evolution as an artist.
Her distinction is also evident through the variety of media in which she works including oils, water colours, pastel, stained glass, pen, ink and pencil. Initially from Limerick, McCarthy comes from a family of artists, fashion designers and goldsmiths. Jenny won the 1990 AIB Limerick - Young Artist of the Year Award (not open to professioanal artists). This was followed by the AIB Limerick Student Art Award when the prize was a day in Tony O'Malley's (RHA) studio which further inspired her contemporary abstract art.
As a colourist Jenny McCarthy renders the abstract concrete, real. Her palette is completely liberated and independent in works such as Coumenole Caves, Coumenole Rocks and Dingle Harbour. Here perceptual experience is no longer conceptualised – instead it becomes more a mental conception which is now rendered perceptible. Her brushwork is crisp, sharp, jagged like the rocks she portrays. There is an agitated element to the underlying water current reinforced through the vivid use of highly textured brushwork.
These paintings are monumental and the use of blue is a feast for the eyes.
JENNIFER GOFF BA MA
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Jenny McCarthy’s Honors:
1991 AIB Young Artist of the Year Award. This award included personal tuition in the studio of the artist Tony O'Malley
