Landscapes 2020 - 2022
Painted from nature, these oil paintings are studies of light and topography around Inistioge and Thomastown, Co Kilkenny,
'September Light, Cattle Grazing, Inistioge', oil on panel, 42 x 21 cm, 2020 SOLD
'September Light, Hurling Pitch, River, Sheep, Village, Inistioge', oil on panel 42 x 20 cm 2020 SOLD
Cloud Shadows, September Light, View from Chapel Hill, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, oil on panel 60 x 24 cm ,2020 SOLD
'October Light, View from Chapel Lane, Thomastown', oil on panel, 46 x 21 cm, 2020. SOLD
'October Light, Thomastown from Chapel Lane', diptych oil on panel, 50 x 24 cm, 2020 bespoke Irish Ash frames,.
'September Light Sheep on Saddle Hill' oil on panel, bespoke Irish Ash frame, 60 x 42 cm, 2020.
'Contrejour' September Light, Cattle at Woodstock, Inistioge', oil on panel, 30 x 21 cm 2020. SOLD
'October Light, Cattle Grazing, Woodstock oil on panel, 30 x 20 cm, 2020., Irish Ash frame. SOLD
'Les Curieux' oil on panel, 21 x 13 cm, 2020, Irish Ash Frame
'September Light, Smithwick's house from across the river, Inistioge', oil on panel, 30 x 21 cm, 2020 SOLD
Summer Rain, Coolrainey, oil on panel, 27 x 21cm, 2020 SOLD
Studies of the Nore Valley
Recently exhibited at '6' Exhibition,
Kilfane Glebe House Studio, Thomastown, August 2020
This series of paintings was begun in March 2020, as the health crisis led us to lockdown within 2km of home. Feeling very fortunate to live in the beautiful Nore Valley, I walked fields, hills and river banks during the Spring and early Summer, with my paints and easel. I started out with studies of single fields, wanting to explore the undulation and shape of each one as a composition. As I continued, I began to see the topography of the lands in the changing light as ancient gestures of the glacier than formed them. Walking and feeling the movements and folds of the land, under changing skies, inspires this ongoing body of work. All of these landscape studies were done from nature, in the vicinities of Inistioge and Thomastown.
Summer Series
'Nore Valley looking towards Inistioge from the Cappagh road', July, oil on panel, 40cm x 20cm, 2020. SOLD
'Saddle Hill, the Flank, from Cappagh, Rossroe, June', oil on panel, 30 x 21cm, 2020. SOLD
‘Saddle Hill from the Graignamanagh Road’, oil on panel, 26 x 18cm, 2020. SOLD
‘Saddle Hill from near Inistioge Bridge, July’ oil on panel, 30 x 21cm, 2020 SOLD
The Nore Valley from the near the Cappagh Road, June’, oil on panel, 30 x 21cm, 2020.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
‘Flying over Saddle Hill, view from fields above the Graignamanagh Road, July’, oil on panel 40 x 20 cm, 2020. SOLD
‘'Saddle Hill from near the Cappagh road, overcast, June’, oil on panel, 30 x 21cm, 2020
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
'Saddle Hill from Brownsbarn, May, oil on panel, 40 x 30 cm, 2020.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
‘Dream Field, Brownsbarn, May’, oil on panel 40 x 30cm, 2020 SOLD
‘Looking across the river towards Dysert, Thomastown, May’, oil on panel, 40 x 30cm, 2020
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
Eamonn's Field, Brownsbarn, Thomastown, oil on panel 32 x 30 cm 2020
with bespoke Irish Ash frame
with bespoke Irish Ash frame
Spring Series 2020
'Sloped Field with River Nore ,Ballyduff, late March' , oil on wooden panel, 2020
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
- 'Smithwick's field with a grey pony and my shadow, late March', oil on wooden panel, 26 x 14.5 cm, 2020
- with bespoke Irish Ash frame.
'Sloped Field, Ballyduff, early April', oil on wooden panel, 2020. SOLD
