Stories From A Garden by Mark O'Neill

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George Walsh: Images in Light

March 7 -
March 19, 2019

Ann Flynn

Ann comes from an illustration and graphic design background. She was an honours graduate of DIT in Vis com. A regular contributor to the Irish Times, her work was much in demand in the cut-throat world of advertising where she was widely regarded as one of the top illustrators in the country particularly in the notoriously difficult area of equine art. Ann has designed a number of postage stamps for An Post. She created the winning designs for the 1988 Irish Olympic stamps. They later went on to win the overall Prix Olympia Gold Medal awarded by the International Olympic Committee surpassing all countries who issued stamps for the games that year.

Arthur Maderson

London born Irish based Impressionist painter studied at Camberwell School of Art. He moved to Ireland in the early 80's. Madderson won the Royal Hibernian Academy Abbey Stained Glass Studio Award in 1993. He is also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London. He lives between Waterford and the South of France.

Brian Ballard

Born in Belfast in 1943 he studied at the College of Art in Belfast and in LIverpool. His contemporary approach to painting alternates between figurative treatment of nudes, landscape and expressionist still life all of which he practices in equal measure of intensity. His work can be found in the Arts Council, AIB, Crawford Municipal Cork, Ulster Museum, The National Trust and U2. He lives between Donegal and Belfast.

James Cahill

James Cahill studied at the Crawford College of Art, Cork and Putney School of Art, London. Recently Cahill was awarded the Silver Medal for best work by non-member by the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, for his painting Interior.

Carolyn Mullholland

Carolyn Mullholland was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh in 1944. She studied at The Belfast College of Art. Commissions include the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, New Ireland Assurance, Jefferson Smurfit Group, Irish Life, Sir. Chester Beatty, Chester Beatty Library, President Mary Robinson, OPW., Famine Memorial Graveyard, CLones. Man and Kite Customs House, Dublin. Carolyn won the Irish-American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Award.

Orla de Bri

Orla has been working from her purpose built studio for the last 20 years. She has had six major solo shows and completed twenty public sculptures. She works with a variety of materials including bronze, steel, stone, fibreglass and recently photography. She brings subjects and materials together that on first glance seem incompatible and yet they seamlessly work with this unique style. Combining steel with gold, or fibreglass with polished bronze, always intrigued with juxtaposed ideas and textures. de Brí is very much a hands on sculptor, enjoying every aspect of the work; from the concept of the first drawing through to all the different physical processes.

Graham Knuttel

"When I was eighteen, I started at art school. I had always had an interest in figurative work, in the portrayal of the human condition, and from an early age I was familiar with the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso. In art school I was attracted to the life drawing room where I determined to develop my skills as a figurative painter. I found myself to be an intuitive painter. I had little patience for the intellectual processes and conclusions involved with abstract and conceptual art. For me, to paint what I saw or felt or imagined around me should be a simple affair, painted from the gut." -- Graham Knuttel Graham Knuttel's bold use of colour and form and the narrative tensions which wind their way through all his work, make him a true story teller. Knuttel's works are instantly recognizable, making him one of Ireland's most popular and collectable living artists of our time.

John Morris

John Morris was born in Dublin in 1958 and is mainly self taught. "I love the Irish landscape, the effects of light, shadows, atmosphere, I make quick sketches in pencil, charcoal or oil. These sketches, along with photographs make up a visual diary which I use as reference material for my paintings. Paintings are sometimes finished in one session, other times it may take two or even three sessions to finish.

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb born in London 1917. won a scholarship to The Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1949. In 1953 he moved to Belfast and was appointed Head of the Painting School at the Ulster College of Art where his part-time assistants included Tom Carr, John Luke and Colin Middleton. He exhibited with The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and founded the Irish School of Landscape Paintings and was elected to The Royal Society of Arts. He opened a studio in the seventies in Connemara exhibiting regularly with Kenny's in Galway. Connemara is a huge influence in his work particularly his garden where colour and nature has inspired many of his paintings.

John Kirwan

He was born in Dublin in 1956. He graduated from Dun Laoghaire School of Art in 1978 and has exhibited extensively all over Ireland. In 2011 and 2014 he had one man shows in the Leinster Gallery, Dublin. His technique could be described as self-effacing in the sense that it is always subordinate to the image. The naturalism of his method extends to his palette, which is generally accurate and subdued. There is certainly colour in his work but, as with real life, his pictures are predominantly tonal. He sets out to capture faithfully the watery grey light characteristic of Ireland and almost everything happens in the play of tones.

Gladys Maccabe

Gladys Maccabe was born in 1918, in Randalstown, Co. Antrim. She studied at Belfast College of Art and in 1941 she married fellow artist and musician, the late Max Maccabe.Gladys Maccabe was a fashion and arts correspondent in the 1960s, working for both newspapers and television. Examples of her work are in The Ulster Museum, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Arts Council of Ireland Collection, The Imperial War Museum and many other permanent collections

Mark O'Neill

Born to Irish parents in 1963 in Lancashire, it was due to his father’s position that O’Neill had a nomadic childhood travelling to South Africa, Mauritius, Nigeria and Malta. His father was also an amateur painter of considerable skill and deftness, specialising in still life paintings, and encouraging him as a child

Mat Grogan

Matt Grogan was born in Duiblin in 1947. Matt's early career was in advertising and in the mid eighties while living in Australia he started painting. His paintings are informed by the works of Chardin and Vermeer but veering towards Impressionism. His work is represented in private collections in the USA, Hong Kong, Australia, Britain and Ireland.

Martin Mooney

Martin Mooney was born in 1960 in Belfast. He studied his Bachelors in Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic College of Art and Design before attending the prestigious Slade School of Art at Post Graduate level. He graduated from the Slade School in 1985. While attending the Slade School his style was somewhat at odds with the dominant emphasis on video, installation and conceptual art in the school at the time. Despite this he has been respected and complimented by critics and buyers since he first started exhibiting in 1980, for his high technical ability and virtuosity in painting. As early as 1990, he attracted the attention of Brian Sewell, a high profile art critic who wrote for Mooney's solo exhibition at The Solomon Gallery Dublin, that he is a 'fine painter with a natural intelligence.'

Markey Robinson

Markey Robinson (1918-1999) Born in Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art for a short time but is mainly self taught. He travelled extensively and had numerous one man shows at The Oriel Gallery, between 1976 and 1999. Markey like Paul Henry captured the mood and atmosphere of the West of Ireland.

Vera Gaffney