Joe Wilson: Caha

wilson the pocket towards curraghreagueJune 3 to 30, 2016

Opening Reception:  Saturday, June 4, 6 – 8 pm
Speaker: Susan Keating, Deputy Editor, Irish Arts Review

Joe Wilson is a painter interested in the raw physicality of painting and of being in nature.  In 2016, at the invitation of this gallery, he explored the rugged Caha Mountains on the Beara peninsula in West Cork.  After many weeks of climbing and hill walking, making sketches and taking photographs along the way, he returned to the studio to make extraordinary paintings that express something about the physical terrain itself and the energy required in traversing it.

Born in England in 1947, Wilson has lived and worked in Ireland since 1979.  He taught at the National College of Art & Design from 1983 to 2009.