The strong decorative element within Kathleen Holohan’s paintings reflects a sympathetic celebration of the ordinary, Gerry Walker
Kathleen Holohan is a Kilkenny-based artist whose paintings exude a deceptively quiet sense of force and vivacity. She belongs to a European painting tradi tion which recalls the type of prescriptive aesthetic associated with Matisse and some of the Fauves. There is a strong decorative element to her work which reflects a sympathetic celebration of the ordinary. It has a therapeutic dimension also, but not in the reductive sense that purports to offer mere palliatives in the face of existential anxieties.
Susan Rogers visits woodturner Liam Flynn at his County Limerick studio
William Laffan previews the exhibition ‘Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840′ which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in March
In his design for the new Coast Guard Station in Doolin, County Clare, Dominic Stevens has discovered his architecture of the Burren; an architecture of abstract rocks, describing the material nature of place, writes Steve Larkin