Ian Humphreys is quietly spoken, generous, down to earth and quick to laugh. He is also a painter of imminence, of quiet intensity, a minimalist of immersive colour fields, whose canvases pulse, shine and shudder like the morning sun burning into the coldest sea. ‘My Journey in Paint’, a retrospective […]
Culture
There’s still plenty of sunshine around for the last shows of the season for Blue House Gallery in Schull. Opening on Friday, September 2 and running until Wednesday, September 14 is (on the ground floor) Elke Thonnes’s exhibition ‘Seeking the Light’ – monoprints focusing mainly on the coastline around Dublin […]
From September 4, Kenmare Butter Market is hosting a significant retrospective exhibition of the work of Ian Humphreys, an artist who has called West Cork “home” for over 20 years. “The work includes still lives, figures, land/seascapes and abstractions, and all the shades between these conventional categories,” says art lecturer […]
DeBarras will play host to the incredible energy that is Xylouris White as part of this year’s Clonakilty Guitar Festival in September. This duo, a collaboration between Cretan lute player Georgios Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White, play Greek folk music with fearless and joyous abandon, experimenting with a range of […]