The Hon.Hector John McDonnell (born 1947) is a Northern Irish painter, etcher, and author, specializing in architectural art, landscape, and portrait work.
McDonnell lives and works in Northern Ireland and New York, but maintains close links with Germany. In 1979, he was the winner of the Darmstädter Kunstpreis and held a Retrospective Exhibition at the Matildenhöhe, Darmstadt, in 1981.[3] His first book, The Ould Orange Flute, was published in 1983.[4]
A further Retrospective Exhibition was at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, from 2003 to 2004.[3] The Belfast Telegraph has described McDonnell as "one of Ireland's greatest living artists".[5]
Personal life
In 1969 McDonell married Catherine Elizabeth, a daughter of Ronald Chapman, and had a daughter, born in 1971, and a son born the next year, before they divorced in 1974. He also has a daughter by Wendy Lindbergh, born in 2000. In 2019 he was living at the Old Rectory, Glenarm.[6]