"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 abandon brushstrokes in favour of pouring, dripping, dragging and spraying the paint onto the canvas, sometimes letting the paint lead where it wants to ...

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 larger scale. Working in this way was like opening a door into new territory, and I felt exhilarated and relieved to be working abstractly. With each canvas I discover anew an inner landscape, ...

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 many locations throughout the UK and has gained a particular connection with its coastal fringes. Now living in West Cornwall with his family, he has returned to an area that he holds a great ...

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…)

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’, Jessie Mae became a member of The Pigeon House Studios, Kinsale in 2010 and now is working from her private studio in the Artistic Alliance Gallery, Cork city. She ...

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 field. That is to begin with a blank canvas onto which he makes a mark or spoils it and then to continuously improvise until some kind of balanced density is achieved.This can be done equally well improvising chords ...

Based in West Cork, Holger Lönze first studied architecture before turning to printmaking and sculpture at the University of Ulster, Belfast where he completed his studies with a PhD. After working as a researcher for the Eden Project, Cornwall, he returned to Ireland in 2004 to work predominantly on public commissions and as artist in residence for various county councils. The wind-driven wave on the surface of the ocean yields an elemental metaphor for the shaping of materials by the sculptor’s hands. It conveys the ancient fundamentals of ...