Born 1927 London, Kenneth Webb came to the Ulster College of Art in 1953 as head of the Painting School, where his part-time assistants included Tom Carr, John Luke and Colin Middleton. In 1957 he founded the Irish School of Landscape Painting and for the last thirty years has had numerous one-man shows in Europe and North America. He has exhibited at the RA, the RI and the RUA.