Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Older works and studies, at studio clear-out prices







The Featherbeds Wicklow/Dublin Mountains

Oil on Canvas

22X16 inches; 56X41 cm.
$250 + postage








Misty Morning near Westport, Co. Mayo.

Oil on Canvas

22X16 inches;56X41cm
Price $250 + postage









Tunisian Landscape

Acrylic and gold Paint on canvas

20X16 inches;51X40cm

Price $200 + postage









Kitchen Table II (1996)

Oil on Canvas-panel

20X16 inches;51X41cm

Price $200 +postage





Kitchen Table I (1996)

Oil on canvas-panel
18X14 inches;46X36 cm.

Price $175 +postage











Plien air study of Feede Mountain, Louth,Armagh border

Oil on Canvas

16X12 inches; 41 X 30 cm

Price $150 +postage










Lough Carra Study.

Oil on Paper

27 X 26 cm; 10.5 X 10.5 inches

SOLD











Flora of the Algarve (1999)
Oil on Canvas

16X12 inches; 41 X 30 cm.

Price $250 +postage.









Monday, April 27, 2009

Ex-Libris Limited Edition Print, lino-cut of Newgrange.



This is an Image of a lino-cut print. I have a few of these left.

The edition was 10. It was one of two print designs sent to the "Second International Biennale of Ex-Libris" in Montenegro last year. It is your chance to own a print that has been exhibited in a major International show. At the same time it is based on the story of Chuchullain's Salmon of Knowledge, from Irish Mythology.

Upon the standing stone, (an ogham stone) is written 'Libris' or book, in ogham, one of the earliest forms of writing.

I used the allegory of Knowledge as part of the book idea also.

The theme of the Biennale was 'lighthouse'. For this I depicted the passage grave at Newgrange in the Boyne Valley, a pre christian, Druidic Tomb. This tomb allows the rising sun on the winter solstice, December 21st, to penetrate along a winding passage and to light the back of the chamber through a small window above the entrance. A lighthouse in reverse as it were. The image itself is 15 by 10 cm. (it was designed to go inside on the fly-leaf of a book) and is Black on white paper.

Price $35 each + postage






Saturday, April 25, 2009

Starter....my first listings.



Lough Mask studyI
Acrylic on Paper.
5X5 inches
$25 +postage















Lough Mask, Mayo. study II
Acrylic on paper
8X5 inches
$30 + postage










Lough Mask study III
Acrylic on paper
8X5 inches
$30 + postage
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These are three quick studies from Last May (2008) that I painted while lunching on the shore of lough Mask, in the middle of Mayfly season...quick because I was going back to the fishing! They capture the mood of the Lough very well. All the Western Loughs can be very moody even in the hight of summer. The weather fronts come straight in off the Atlantic Ocean.