Uplifting Art Inspiration For Spring
Light, bright artwork from Irish galleries …
Cliona Doyle’s Lemons, a new etching created for her recent exhibition, “Floriography” at Graphic Studio Dublin; www.graphicstudiodublin.com.
Grainne Cuffe’s Blushing Lady is a large-scale etching included in an upcoming exhibition, “Leaning on the Line”; www.graphicstudiodublin.com.
William Crozier’s Easter is a carborundum print by the late, great master colourist; www.graphicstudiodublin.com.
Sophia O’Sullivan’s The Small Hours celebrates the serenity of night-time, featuring a yellow lamp composition; www.graphicstudiodublin.com.
Eamon Colman’s Garden Series 8, part of the current Group Show at Solomon Fine Art in Dublin; www.solomonfineart.ie.
Stephanie Hess, A Taste of Honey; www.solomonfineart.ie.
Helen O’Sullivan-Tyrell, Yellow Tree; www.solomonfineart.ie.
Janet Murran, A Yellow Dance II, from her exhibition “Glimmer”, a collection exploring the Ilen river and coastal areas close to her home in West Cork; www.taylorgalleries.ie.
Makiko Nakamura’s Yellow Wings reflects her idiosyncratic paintings, remarkable for their intense depth of colour and incredibly fine finish; www.taylorgalleries.ie.
Kathrine Geoghegan, Daybreak Pollardstown Fen. See her new “Lifeforce” exhibition in May; www.unitedartsclubdublin.com.
Robert Ryan, Arrival; www.kilcockartgallery.ie.
Isabel Nolan, System; www.kerlingallery.com.
Dulce et Decorum est is a 1990 work by John Kindness, part of the IMMA Permanent Collection; www.imma.ie.
William John Leech (1881-1968), A Convent Garden, Brittany. Leech’s first wife poses as a novice of the Soeurs du Saint-Esprit, wearing the Breton bridal costume traditionally worn on the day they took their final vows. The setting is the walled garden of the nuns’ convent and hospital where Leech convalesced in 1904; www.nationalgallery.ie.
The Sunshade, another Leech painting in his Post-Impressionist style; www.nationalgallery.ie.
James Abbot McNeill, Whistler (1834-1903), Sunrise: Gold and Grey; www.nationalgallery.ie.
Margaret Corcoran, The Composition – A Portrait of Marian Keyes; www.nationalgallery.ie.
