Markey Robinson
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Markey Robinson (7 February 1918, in Belfast, Northern Ireland – 28 January 1999, Belfast) was a prolific Irish painter with a distinctive naïve expressionist style.
He painted the inhabited countryside with flat muted colour and, in his almost abstract, almost geometrical compositions he seemed to capture the easy relationship between beauty and sadness. He was the son of a house painter and spent time as a boxer and as a merchant sailor. In his early career he was championed by the Oriel Gallery in Dublin.
In May 2008, the Taoiseach [= the Irish Prime Minister], Brian Cowen TD, officially opened MARKEY AT THE ORIEL, The Oriel Gallery's massive Markey Robinson retrospective, featuring Markey paintings (and some rare sculpture) from as far back as the 1950s. He also launched a lavishly-illustrated, 160 page book on the artist (also entitled MARKEY AT THE ORIEL) by Paul O'Kelly.
