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John Doherty

John Doherty (Born 1949) is active/lives in Australia, Ireland.  John Doherty is known for Street-scene photo real painting.

John Doherty (b.1949)

The Irish photorealist painter and landscape artist John Doherty was born in County Kilkenny and trained as an architect at the Bolton Street College of Technology in Dublin.  He then moved to Australia where he studied drawing and painting at the National College of Art, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.  After extensive travels around the world, Doherty settled in Melbourne.

Although he has completed a number of traditional Irish landscapes, more typical subjects of his photo-realism work are buildings - often in small rural towns.  His sharp bright canvases use delicate tones of light and dark to emphasise the silence and lack of movement in the spaces he portrays.  His particular art focuses on street scenes, doors and shop fronts depicted face-on, using photo-realist techniques, in order to capture the lost optimism and neglect of aging structures.  A typical visual element in his scenes are the rectangular slabs of colour   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3360 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about John Doherty

   John Doherty  Born:  1949 - County Kilkenny, Ireland
Known for:  Street-scene photo real painting

John Doherty (b.1949)

The Irish photorealist painter and landscape artist John Doherty was born in County Kilkenny and trained as an architect at the Bolton Street College of Technology in Dublin.  He then moved to Australia where he studied drawing and painting at the National College of Art, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.  After extensive travels around the world, Doherty settled in Melbourne.

Although he has completed a number of traditional Irish landscapes, more typical subjects of his photo-realism work are buildings - often in small rural towns.  His sharp bright canvases use delicate tones of light and dark to emphasise the silence and lack of movement in the spaces he portrays.  His particular art  ...  Displaying 750 of 3360 characters.

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