Ireland Paintings

March 29th, 2019

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I said I’d post some of the paintings from studies I did several years ago in Ireland. Took a while but here they are. I’m still working with the idea of time and the landscape. The ancientness of this land and it’s history is overwhelming to me. Ceide Fields are bogs covering settlements over 5500 years old. I’ve done several more in this series, but this gives you an idea.

Image of Ceide Fields and the North Sea
Ceide Fields and the North Sea
Down Patrick Head in the distance with Sea Stack, Dún Briste
Image of River and mountains, Co. Mayo

The impact that people make on the land and how people and our civilizations with all our grand ideas pass on and the land has remained is haunting to me. Nature reclaims—so far…