Originally from Dublin, McCarthy’s recent work finds its source in rural Ireland, particularly a group of villages at the foot of Mount Brandon on the Dingle Peninsula. Using traditional techniques, and often depicting nightime and artificial light, ideas of place and home, memory, leaving and returning are consistent themes in her atmospheric paintings.
A member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, McCarthy has show extensively in Ireland and internationally. Her portrait of Maeve Binchy is in the National Gallery of Ireland’s portrait collection.
Archive Gallery
Approaching Night, Brandon
Polke's, Ballycastle
Through a Village
House & Tree
Over Trees
Night Gable
Security
At the Cross
Abandoned House
Leaving a Village
Stillness
Approaching Night
Bare Trees 2
Night Lights
House on the Hill
Road to Teer
Rural Garda Station
Sunset Tree
Winter Storm
At a Crossroads
Pier Lights
Bare Trees
Moon Through Trees
Approaching a Village