Artist by the sea: the paintings of Mary Lohan

Within a deliberately restricted theme, Mary Lohan offers a new confrontation with the sublime, writes Catherine Marshall ahead of the artist’s exhibition at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, in June.


Artist by the sea: the paintings of Mary Lohan

Mary Lohan is a contemporary artist. She does not easily fit the descriptions ‘conceptual’, or ‘expressionist’; it is difficult to describe her as Modernist, not to mention a post-modernist. Yet she certainly could not with any credibility be described as academic either, and to cap it all, she paints the same theme with only relatively small variation over and over again and has done so for twenty years now. Yet her work is widely admired, even loved by art audiences across the whole spectrum of gallery-goers and collectors.

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