Catherine Leen views Stephen Lawlor’s new suite of paintings at Fred London and finds the printmaker revelling in the accidental possibilities of oil
John Constable’s 1826 letter describing a visit to a famous beauty spot in Sussex could have been written as an introduction to Stephen Lawlor’s latest show of landscape paintings, ‘Cu’. Early 20th-century landscape painting in Ireland was intimately associated with nationalism, so that the idealised portrayal of rural locales, particularly in the West, became part of an assertion of a unique cultural identity.² Irish landscape art has evolved dramatically since then, however, to become as much a reflection of the artist’s engagement with the genre as a response to a particular place
On the eve of his show at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, in Winter 2009 Joseph McBrinn considered the unique aesthetic Rudolf Heltzel has brought to jewellery design.
