Una Sealy’s painting method is predominantly linear, with strong tonal contrasts, generating an overall feeling of jagged visual rhythms, writes Aidan Dunne
Una Sealy’s ten-year survey exhibition, ‘Time Lines’, presents the work of an artist tied to place, the place being roughly the Dublin Bay area, extending from the river to Howth Head on the northside of the city. Sealy was born and grew up in Howth and, as a teenager, was keen to move on from its small-town confines. She did so for a time, including a sojourn in San Francisco involving marriage and motherhood. Eventually it was, she says, her husband, Chris, who influenced their decision to settle in Howth; he was charmed by the place.
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