Created during a period of separation from his cherished Connemara landscape, Revelation is a vision shaped by longing, memory and an overwhelming sense of spiritual presence. The painting’s palette, luminous with lilac, rose, amber and cobalt, casts the familiar bogland in otherworldly tones. The dark, saturated land seems almost to dissolve beneath a sky swirling with passion and prophecy.

It was during the process of painting that Kenneth glimpsed what he imagined to be the face of Danu, the Celtic goddess of earth and water, momentarily emerging in the heavens before melting into abstraction. This fleeting apparition infused the work with deeper meaning. Water reflects the roiling sky above, creating a mirror world in which colour and light tumble and blur. The solid ground of the peat bog begins to feel ephemeral, even mythical.

This painting sits firmly within Kenneth’s Dystopian Series of more visionary works - those which tread the boundary between the natural and the spiritual, between place and personification. The bog becomes a living entity, a vessel of transformation. Nature here is not passive, but sentient, rising up in defiant beauty.

In recent years, having moved to Devon and away from Connemara, this series of paintings afforded Kenneth a way to reconnect with the place that shaped so much of his artistic life. The result is an image that reverberates with emotion. With Revelation, Kenneth moves beyond observation into communion. What he creates is not simply a painting of a place remembered, but a vision of a world alive with elemental energy. It is Connemara seen through the lens of spirit, myth and creative intensity. Through its shimmering surface and transcendent hues, Revelation reminds us that the natural world holds mysteries still waiting to be revealed, if only we look deeply enough.