Delighted to announce that my work is featured in the new issue of Painterstubes magazine
My painting ‘Peripheries’ is on the front and back covers
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Here’s the painting hanging in a house in Westport, County Mayo
This installation is for an episode of an interior design show on Irish television. More news soon!
Newly stretched and available through Green Fuse Gallery
Peripheries is a large bold piece, oil on linen, c. 90x250cm
I thought I would bring together some of my large works from the last few years, here in a post, and remind myself where they are now.
All these paintings are between 150 and 300cm long and up to 140cm deep. All were made on unstretched linen, stamped to my studio wall, then stretched afterwards, either here or at their destination after they were sold
This is ‘Tower’ just under 3m long. It was a huge challenge getting it out to its new home, by boat, onto a little island off Donegal
This is ‘Voyage’, about 100x190cm, shown at Mark Borghi Fine Art in New York, and placed with a client over there
Me with ‘Lugh’s Portal’ on the opening night of my show at MBFA last year. The painting is still there in their inventory
This is ‘Due West’ in my solo show of the same name two years ago at GreenFuse gallery in Westport. It’s home again now
2 new works on canvas in the studio today
Each 100x120cm
4 new works on linen
Also these two:
And these two:
All 4 are 70cm sq on unprimed birch panels
Over the last few months I have been experimenting with painting on unprimed birch panels
Here are a few examples
I think finally I’ve finished this large piece, about 4’x7′
At the same time as working on the big piece stapled to my wooden studio wall, I’ve also been making some small studies on birch panel. These 6, each only 12×16″
The large piece and the small ones are interconnected, both by my process (lifting areas of wet paint in tissue paper, from one work to another, in a type of printing), and also in subject. Although all the works are totally abstract, and as such have no actual subject or representational form, they all come from the idea and challenge that we all face, of the potential destruction of our beautiful environment. The shapes and forms, particularly in the small pieces, for me have echoes of sea and sky, rock and sand, light on water
I am very excited to be showing 6 paintings at a Palm Beach, Florida Art Fair with Mark Borghi Fine Art
These photos show 6 of my works on two walls, installation in progress yesterday. Also in the lower image I think I can identify a painting by Larry Poons and one by Max Ernst
So excited to be able to share that the 9 ‘poured’ paintings that I made in the last few days have ALL been requested by Mark Borghi Fine Art for his Palm Beach gallery in Florida
