Claremorris Gallery

We are delighted to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Michelle Rogers and Philippa Sutherland.  The exhibition will open on August 28th and will run from Sept 1st - 17th, to coincide with the Claremorris Open Exhibition.

Claremorris Gallery will present an exhibition of new works by Helen O'toole and Lorraine Wall from July 30th to August 14th.

Claremorris Gallery is delighted to launch brian Bourke five decades 1960s - 2000s, published by Lilliput Press.

The launch of the book, by Mrs. Mary Robinson, will take place on Saturday July 3rd in Claremorris Gallery.  This event will coincide with Winterscapes, an exhibition of new work by Brian Bourke comprising paintings and drawings.   The limited edition of brian bourke, five decades 1960s – 2000s will be available to purchase on this occasion.

Peter Burns
Peter Burns paintings are romantic in essence, playful re-workings of  myths, Biblical stories, art historical, literary and musical themes.  In the paintings people are shown in relation to nature and the universe. Small figures of people and animals exist and roam in a painted world. 

"One painting is heavy, encrusted and knobbled with history.  On another canvas the barest of coloured stains suggest trees. Rudimentary people with eyes and mouth poked into a blob of paint for a head, pale pink hills, bituminous nights. A man climbs a mountain to find nothing. A woman sits hunched beneath a tree made of  an old paint rag. The underworld into which Orpheus descends is the pocket in an old pair of jeans. A man with a telescope looks to the heavens. The milky way is paint flicked on from the brush. Jacob wrestling the angel, Tolstoi walking in the snow, a strange ancestor. Torn paper, balsa wood, powdered pigment."

A variety of techniques are used to enliven the surfaces of the paintings. Chunks of old dried paint from the pallett are attached to the canvas in places, while on other parts of the canvas paint is  scraped off revealing underlying layers.

Exoticism flavours the work with allusions to faraway places, to Japanese art and Russian literature. Infinity is suggested in the sky, in the stars and the planets. They are colourful paintings with a sense of humour. They are daring and experimental, each one a self contained world. Sculptural, suggestive, enigmatic. 
 

Anne Donnelly's work is a celebration of beauty in the benign. Her lyrical paintings capture a quality of light which is unmistakably Mediterranean. Her masterful manipulation of paint conjures Italian and Greek landscape that harkens to French Impressionism, and her chalky landscape renderings have a nostalgic fresco-like charm.

La Chanteuse >>

• Brian Bourke
• Barrie Cooke
• Anne Donnelly
• Martin Gale
• Bernadette Kiely
• Brian Maguire
• Conor McGrady
• Hughie O’Donoghue
• Tony O’Malley
• John Shinnors
• Camille Souter

Reception Saturday October 6^th, 7.30 – 9.30pm
Exhibition runs until Sat October 20^th
Gallery Hours Tues – Sat 11am to 6pm