John Kingerlee John Kingerlee was born in Birminham,England in
1936. His Mother was related to
the Hornans of West Cork. In
1982 he moved to Ireland to
the Beara Peninsula of West
Cork, where for the past twenty
years, he has evolved a
technique of painting. Layers of pigment are applied
one over the other as many as
fifty to one hundred coats.Kingerlee is the first Irish
artist to exhibit solo at the
National Museum of China,and
is currently touring the
states until 2010.His highest
price at auction to date
was in southerbys New York in
2006, reaching 127,000 euros
and in Whyets in Dublin in 2005
41,400 euros.
