Brian Fallon takes a renewed look at the work of Veronica Bolay, whose West of Ireland landscapes are among her strongest work
Veronica Bolay, the German-born artist who died in Dublin in 2020 in her late seventies, had been a respected, but often overlooked, painter for several decades. It would be untrue to say that she was ignored, but she made few or no headlines. Her work was generally sensitive and accomplished – especially her pastels, a medium in which she had few rivals in this country. A late flowering, however, brought a new mastery of oil paints, joined to a special, personalised relationship with the landscape of the West of Ireland, where she eventually moved and which became, in effect, the dominant theme of her work.
Isabella Evangelisti visits the MAC in Belfast, where the work of selected painting graduates from Belfast School of Art is on show
