Simon Kenny was born in Dublin in 1976 and discovered his love of art at a young age. Now internationally recognised as a leading abstract expressionist painter, he has been characterised as a 'radical Turner' and acclaimed as a young master for a body of work that combines the drama of lyrical abstraction with deeply personal emotional resonance.

Working with brush and palette knife, and employing subtle under-painting alongside graduating shifts in colour, Kenny builds compositions that are unmistakably his own — vivid 'colour burst' paintings that invite the viewer to connect personally with each piece. His aim is not to depict a specific place but to evoke a feeling of one: to transport the viewer to a remembered landscape or an unexpected moment of emotion. The natural world remains his greatest inspiration.

Represented by some of the finest galleries in the UK, Europe and Asia, Simon Kenny's work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery and is widely collected by private and corporate clients across the globe. He has a particularly strong collector base in the United States, where the scale and luminosity of his work has found a devoted audience.