Hector McDonnell RUA (b.1947) Donnelly's, Ballycastle Oil on canvas, 126.5 x 152cm (49.75 x 59.75'') Signed Exhibited: ''Hector McDonnell Retrospective'' The Ulster Museum, Nov, 2003 - April...
Hector McDonnell RUA (b.1947) Donnelly's, Ballycastle Oil on canvas, 126.5 x 152cm (49.75 x 59.75'') Signed Exhibited: ''Hector McDonnell Retrospective'' The Ulster Museum, Nov, 2003 - April 2004 Ulster Artists Exhibition, the AVA Gallery, Clandeboye, April 2010, catalogue no. 24 Originally from Belfast, Hector MCDonnell began his studies in Munich and Vienna where he studied under secessionist sculptor Hans Wotruba. McDonnell received his degree in History from Oxford University and has travelled extensively throughout Europe and Asia. During the 1970s and 1980s he spent most of his time in London where he was represented by Fischer Fine Art, but more recently has settled in Antrim and exhibits regularly at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin. McDonnell has received international recognition, exhibiting at shows in Paris, Madrid, and across Germany where he had a retrospective in 1981 and won the Darmstadter Kunstpreis.