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Clive Pates

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:17:06 +0000

At its best the Irish landscape is bright and strong, flickering with shadows and a half thought expectancy of its undoing that only enhances the moment. For the plein-air landscape painter the clarity of light is only matched by the struggle to catch each moment on canvas. Most landscape painters solve the problem of...

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Michael McSwiney

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:15:58 +0000

Michael Mc Swiney (b. Cork 1969) began his studies at the Crawford College of Art and Design. He graduated with an Honours Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 1991. For several years Michael travelled and worked in many countries such as Norway, India and Egypt. In the...

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Saul Cathcart

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:51:44 +0000

Saul Cathcart is a Cornish artist from the Launceston area. He holds a degree in Fine Art Sculptrure from the Winchester School of Art, Hampshire. He has now returned to his Cornish roots where he has remained ever since. “(…) each painting in Saul Cathcart’s Irish collection develops a small but fascinating narrative. Most landscape pictures are...

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Oonagh Hurley

admin — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:00:28 +0000

“…Oonagh Hurley, who looks to be a very promising artist, is clearly cognisant of what is going on in contemporary painting and takes it into account in works that are made with great verve and intelligence. She refers to the workings of memory and her pictures are fluid, multi-layered distillations of scenes and moments, full...

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Elizabeth O’Callaghan

admin — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:25:11 +0000

“My work is an exploration of colour inspired by the sensations experienced first hand, and also from memory, of the sea and landscape. I hope to recreate that immediacy and energy in my work through colour, texture and shape. I want to evoke a world of emotion and imagination in the work. I tend to...

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André van Schaijk

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:18:49 +0000

During my last year in the Crawford I concentrated on the landscape of Slievenamon. Initially my work was small, but in the end I was working on quite a large scale. Recently I was looking at a series of small abstract monoprints I had made in 2003. I felt challenged to work with abstract forms on a...

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Paul Lewin

admin — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:00:01 +0000

Predominantly a painter of the coast and sea, Paul Lewin has emerged as one of the leading contemporary landscape painters in the Southwest. With over 35 solo exhibitions, and many more mixed shows over the past 15 years, his name is well known throughout the West Country and further afield. He has painted in...

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Brian Smyth

admin — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:03:12 +0000

Brian Smyth is an Irish figurative painter. He was born in Cork and studied art at the Crawford College of Art and Design, where he specialised in painting and graduated with an honours degree in art and design in 1995. More biography is coming soon. Some Sample of Brians Work

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Jessie Mae Winchester

admin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:21:42 +0000

Jessie Mae Winchester is an Irish artist, born 1982 in West Cork. She is currently based in Kinsale. Jessie Mae received her BA Honours Degree in Fine Art in 2009 at The Crawford College of Art & Design, where she specialised in Sculpture and Life Drawing. After her Degree Show titled, ‘Site 46’, where she received an Award from CIT for ‘Best Exhibition Space’,...

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Fergus O’Farrell

admin — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:25:22 +0000

Fergus O’Farrell is well known and respected in music parlance for his work with Interference and to the many other artists that have collaborated with him over his long and illustrious career in the music business. He has enjoyed drawing and painting since he was a child. He uses the same strategy to create works in either...

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