Lord Charlemont’s Casino provides an ideal setting for a landscape exhibition prompting Ruth Musielak to examine some favoured historical views of the vicinity
Inspired by the panorama of Dublin Bay, Ireland’s landscape artists have sought to capture its coastal beauty. Favoured viewpoints were set back from the Clontarf shoreline; looking towards Wicklow or from elevated spots in Blackrock or Stillorgan, looking toward the Hill of Howth.
In the last decade of the 18th century, William Ashford (1746-1824), produced several notable oil paintings of Dublin Bay. Possibly he was inspired to paint the landscape seen on his journeys around rural Ireland as an employee of the Irish Ordnance Survey. During his travels he would have come in contact with many former students of the Dublin Drawing Schools, who were engaged by the Ordnance Survey to record antiquities.
With the recent passing of Ronald Tallon, Seán Ó Laoire reflects on the end of an era and remembers Michael Scott, founder and charismatic figurehead of Scott Tallon Walker
Catherine Marshall assesses the unwavering artistic journey of Maria Simonds-Gooding in advance of her retrospective in Dublin
The class of 2014 is looking anew to the tangible joys of creativity, in contrast to its documentation, writes Gerry Walker of the trends emerging from this year’s graduate shows.