Kenneth Mahood was born in Belfast in 1930. After an apprenticeship in lithography, 1945-49, he turned to painting, winning a CEMA travel scholarship to Paris.
Throughout the 50s he was a regular exhibitor at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art as well as the RUA and the Victor Waddington Gallery in Dublin, where he had his first one man exhibition in 1955. From 1960 he worked primarily as a cartoonist and illustrator for Punch, the Times and the New Yorker, retiring from the Daily Mail in 2009.
Since the 1980s his paintings have concentrated on collage.
Kenneth Mahood's work featured in "Ireland: Her people and landscape" (2012) exhibition. Please click here to view the catalogue.
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