In 1996, my family and I spent two and a half weeks in western Ireland, near Clifden and Galway. I was really moved by the views there and, when I returned, I did this series of paintings of the Western Irish landscape.
Watercolors
Chough Cottage watercolor 4" x 10"
Claddaghduff Strand watercolor 3" x 10"
View over Omey Strand watercolor 3" x 10"
Clair in Claddaghduff watercolor 7" x 10"
Les and Em watercolor 10" x 14"
Irish Pasture watercolor 10" x 14"
Omey Island Cottage watercolor 6" x 9"
Connemara Farmhouse watercolor 20" x 28"
Clifden Bay watercolor 4" x 6"
Hiking with Cuca watercolor 7" x 10"
Cliffs of Aughrusberg watercolor 7" x 10"
Roundstone Harbor watercolor 12" x 16"
Omey Cottage watercolor 4" x 6"
Omey Walkers watercolor 11" x 15"
Cottage by Omey Lake watercolor 7" x 10"
Oil Paintings
Rocky Pasture oil on panel 18" x 24"
Sunny Road oil on panel 12" x 16"
View from Omey Island oil on panel 7" x 12"
Omey Island Cottage oil on panel 5" x 7"
Lake at Kylemore Abbey oil on panel 2" x 4"
Clair in Claddaghduff oil on panel 7" x 8"
Em on Omey
Long Walk Home oil on panel 18" x 24"
I love these paintings. You could write a novel about each one of them. So much to get lost in and experience. All the hiker images are great because a viewer has the sense of people experiencing the landscape for the first time, or at least being struck by it, as they are.
I wonder if you would be interested in adding another painter to your plein aire list. I’ll send you a link and if you like her work maybe you will include her.
Thanks for this posting.
Andrea
The paintings really capture the ‘famous’ light in the West of Ireland.
Thanks for your visit and kind words, Liam