The Realism Now exhibition, currently showing in Barcelona’s MEAM Museum, showcases some of the world’s best contemporary figurative painters. Amongst them is the British painter, Edward Povey (b.1951), whose extraordinary brand of ‘emotional realism’ (the artist’s term) both resonates and extends the Western tradition, intimating and echoing painters as far […]
A junior student, who attends my art classes on the top floor of the Clonakilty Community Arts Centre (CCAC), recently posed the following question: “If art and culture are so important, as we’re taught in school, why are there so few places to view and make art?” We were discussing […]
The work of printmaker, Brian Lalor, as viewed in the current Uillin retrospective, reveals a Janus-faced graphic artist of, on one side, Bruegelian humour, intensity and detail, and on the other, expressionist fervour and flight. Breaking this down further, in his tighter drawings of cityscapes we glimpse an architect and […]