JohnKentPainter


 seankent1@gmail.com

My Photography blog is at www.Jkphotos25.blogspot.com

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Some of these are original - others are copies, done with the purpose of improving.

{If you are a photographer or painter and would like to have your own blog (its free) 

I would be happy to set it up for you. Once set up the rest is easy.}

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For Malachy 10/25



Just framed for Francis Mahon 
Captain of Newlands GC 2025

  



 A quiet spot.



                                             After Joaquin Sorolla - "Master of Light"

30x37cm. canvas on board.



“Flow gently along”.


For Liam


        River Horses     (after A Tischler - New Zealand)
              
  36 x 18 in. not framed.



                     Country Road …..

 

In for a pint …….
            



 My friend Pat Jackson

 in Pat's house, Brisbane.



        My copy of Vermeer 
                Sent to Yvette in Brisbane
{PS. Painting was stolen enroute}😞


From my easel to the easel of Christian Jequel 

French landscape painter.




             Oil on canvas  50x50cms
            For Nuala and Ann Jan ‘24



 Cello Lady



       The Kinard stack near Dingle 
 

                                                                            Red Hat


                  Abstract Landscape1.  40x40cm
                                                       


       For Aoife Fitzgibbon (after Vogolov)


Inspired by a photo by Gerry Andrews

Of Dublin Camera Club.


                                                                  Luzty's Daughter


Anna.   60x50cm Oil on canvas.

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Gulls with A Fear Marbh, Dingle, Co. Kerry 
 

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Another copy of the great Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer c. 1657
When the painting was restored 2018-21 a painting within a painting was discovered
- Cupid with his arrow suggesting that the girl is reading a love letter.




                                                           Still life with teapot.


 




Landscape abstract 3


      Beautiful framing job by Rory Lamont

                           I am sad today.


My study of Henry Bright (1810-1873) painting.

                    

                      After sunset - study on oil paper.

from a photo I shot in Massy Woods estate Dublin Mountains



All violin paintings are original and are 

Inspired by child prodigy Hirami Yoshimura - 

Framed 72x62cm  oil on canvas





  • The Fishing Girl   May '22

      
                from the cover of the book by Thomas Jefferson Kitts "The colour of Light"

                                                              



               My Copy of Claude Monet painting 
“The Magpie" painted 1869                                    
Just dawned on me - I forget to put the magpie in!!!!!


Seaside2  on canvas board - 
for Mary K.


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                          Recently had a request from my niece Niamh  in Sydney to do this Picasso 

                                                      Jeune Fille Endormie (Sleeping girl)


                                                                      This is my Picasso.


Requested by my sister Marie - after a visit to S. Africa





           My version of  John Skelton's Into the Surf  




Kestrel




Master copy after Vogolov - Russian painter

Oil on Canvas    

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   "Young Girl reading a Book"    Painted in 1769 by Jean Fragonard.     

Rory's Version. Painted about 2015
All versions of this painting are large about 90x 60 cm





         Most recent version for Siobhan -  Painted 2020


Im our sitting room - painted in 2001.  90 x 60 cms.

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The Afghan Girl (below)
Made famous through Steve McCurry's photo.
This was the exhibition poster photo from 1948.
Below is my version 

Some years ago while walking through Genoa I spotted this picture on a bus!
Within the hour I was feasting on an exhibition of Steve McCurry's amazing images.



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The girl with the pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer c. 1165

I have done more than a few versions for various people


An early version



This was for Pauline 2020






This version  in my house





My friend and photographer Ray 





This is Ruby



Grainne


Grainne. 


Child prodigy violinist  Himari Yoshimura

See her on You tube Click >  HERE

Painted 2021



I took a photo from the TV screen while watching her play on YouTube and made these two paintings



Promised this one above to Rory 






French Swing   after  Vladimir Vologov

My version Painted 2018 - 





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Seascapes


Peggy owns this one 



















From a photo taken on the weekly photography outing with the Friday Snappers.
 Red barn at Tigknock Forest


















                                                                  I love horses .........











                                                                        Tumbling water





Hollyhocks







Geraldine has this one





















 
 
Autumn 2021
 palette knife only










Nov  21
















 Keem Bay in Achill October 21




I saw this painting in Florida many years ago - liked it and decided to try see if I could reproduce. It must be 20 years since I painted this.




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