Land’s End
An Artist’s Journey to Glenlough, 100 Years After Rockwell Kent
One landscape.
A century apart.
In 1926, American artist Rockwell Kent travelled to the remote valley of Glenlough, on Donegal’s Atlantic coast.
A century later, Donegal artist Kevin Lowery returned to the same landscape—not to recreate Kent’s paintings, but to discover how the place might speak to another artist in another time.
Developed over three years, Land’s End brings together 19 paintings shaped by Glenlough’s changing light, weather and scale, and by the physical experience of repeatedly journeying into this remote coastal landscape.
From the exhibition
A selection from the 19 paintings created through repeated journeys into Glenlough and the surrounding Atlantic landscape.
Land’s End
Illustrated Hardback
A lasting companion to Kevin Lowery’s Land’s End exhibition and his three-year exploration of south-west Donegal.
This richly illustrated hardback brings together all 19 paintings alongside location photography, reflections from Kevin’s journeys and the artistic process behind one of his most personal and ambitious bodies of work.
“I wanted to stand where Rockwell Kent had stood.”
His paintings brought me to Glenlough, but once I began making the journey for myself, the landscape took over. I carried paints, food, water and large canvases across steep, exposed ground, often spending ten or twelve hours on foot as the weather changed around me.
I wasn’t interested in copying Kent or seeing Glenlough through his eyes. The paintings began outdoors, then changed in the studio as I redrew them, exaggerated forms and colours, and allowed memory to alter what observation had begun.
The finished works carry the climbs, weather and long hours spent looking. I began by wanting to understand what Kent had found here. Instead, I discovered that two artists can stand on the same ground and encounter entirely different landscapes.
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Land’s End — An Artist’s Journey to Glenlough, 100 Years After Rockwell Kent