Marking the centenary of his birth, Brian Fallon considers the work of artist Richard Kingston
Richard Kingston is not a name bandied about much any more, though fifty-odd years ago he was a figure who counted in the Dublin art world and his paintings were bought by people with an eye for sophisticated, sensitive, well-crafted painting of the middle ground. His exhibitions at the David Hendriks Gallery in St Stephen’s Green were ‘news’ and the Irish Exhibition of Living Art was glad to have him as a new recruit when its prestige appeared to be waning. So what, exactly, went wrong – assuming that something did?
Unravelling the sequence of carving on the stones has been challenging but has been helped by the fact that there are so many examples to study, writes Elizabeth Shee Twohig
