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Jacqueline Stanley: June 26 to July 22

Jacqueline Stanley : Along the Margins

Opening Reception: Saturday June 26, 2004, 3:00 – 5:30 pm

Opened by: Peter Murray, Curator, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery

This important solo show features paintings and works on paper depicting different aspects of West Cork and Kerry. Stanley captures the essentail in a way that refocuses our own contemplations of this island’s uniquely beautiful margin.

According to Stanley, “I have found that where mountains meet wetlands, cliffs and shoreline edge the ocean, and flat open spaces change to more textured terrain, these are where my interests lie. These divisions, at the edges and margins, beginnings and endings, are repeated themes.” Her ability to render the vibrant color of the landscape brings out, as she says, “the chrome yellow of the gorse, crimson fushsia, vivid orange montbretia, which leap out of the huge vocabulary of green.” She reminds us how rich the colours, textures and patterns in in the landscape around us truly are.

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Leonard Sheil: May 28 to June 23

Leonard Sheil: Paintings & Drawings 1996 – 2004

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 29th 2004, 3:00 – 5:30 pm

An exhibit of more than two dozen works by Dublin-born artist, Leonard Sheil, features mixed-media paintings inspired by his travels and the landscape at home in the Wicklow mountains. Sheil’s blend of paint and non-paint materials is spontaneous but not anarchic, often with rich, gritty texture. What the works have in common, whether huge canvases with heroic leanings or small intimate panels, are ceaselessly varied surfaces on which Sheil deploys a variety of techniques and medai. Colour builds upon colour, sometimes dynamically liquid, pooling, dripping, flowing or splashing. The work is intense and lush without being overly romantic. It shows a mature depth of conviction of the mysterious world below the surface.

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Evocative Earth – Nov. 12 to Jan. 5

Small landscape paintings by by Gerard Casey, Brian Garvey, Neal Greig, Carol Hodder, and Frances Ryan

Closes January 5th, 2005

This group show features small works that evoke different feelings about the land and where the land meets the sea. Frances Ryan’s elegant, textured studies of tidal flats and estuaries, Brian Garvey’s misty images of quiet hills and cliffs, Neal Greig’s muscular images of light on water and rocks, Carol Hodder’s painterly take on light reflecting on fields, and Gerard Casey’s colourful renditions of abstract landscape elements—all provide deeply personal yet universally recognized interpretations of experiencing the landscape.

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