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Paul K. Hennesy

Paul Hennesy was born in 1954 in Rhode Island and now lives and works in the family home located on ten acres a mile north of the historic town of Clifton, Virginia. He worked as an apprentice to his father, artist Gerald Hennesy, while he studied at the University of Virginia and George Mason University, from which he was graduated with a degree in Fine Art in 1977. Since then he has devoted his full time to the practice of fine art, working along side his father in their home studio, specializing in landscapes and seascapes in oil and watercolor.

Paul particularly admires the work of the French Barbizon School painters and the American Realists and study of their work has had a strong influence on his own style, wherein he attempts to capture certain effects of light and atmosphere on the landscape. His palette is naturalistic and his brushwork ranges from tightly realistic to energetic and painterly, depending on the mood and subject at hand.

Paul began learning the art of landscape painting by rendering the more elemental motifs of sky, sea and sand along the Outer Banks of North Carolina where his family vacationed in the summer, and he still enjoys painting seascapes. He and his father frequently travel to Europe to study the masters firsthand in the great museums and search for their own subjects to paint in the cities, villages and countryside of France and Italy. Paul also finds a never-ending source of landscape painting subjects in the nearby rolling piedmont and Blue Ridge Mountains just to the west of his studio, where he particularly enjoys painting the few short weeks of high color in autumn and the delicate pastels of blossoms in the springtime.

Paul is an associate member of Oil Painters of America and was a member and past president of The Washington Society of Landscape Painters. He has had a number of one-man gallery shows and many two-man shows with his father. He exhibits widely in galleries along the East Coast and his work is in numerous private collections. Paul also gives private art instruction to groups and individuals.