Painting
Out of the Blue
New from the Spring 2021 edition. Mike Fitzharris tells Brian McAvera of his attraction to colour captured in the brilliance of an Irish summer or Spain’s Andalucía
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Drawn to life
New from the Spring 2021 edition. Though best known for his landscapes and portraits, Blaise Smith has been painting still lifes for more than two decades and, writes Aidan Dunne, they are among his most personal and speculative works Read More
Blazing a trail
New from the Winter 2020 edition. Rose Jane Leigh’s importance as an early pioneering Wexford landscape painter and her choice of studying in Antwerp placed her at the centre of the major art movements of the 19th and early 20th century, writes Mary Stratton Ryan Read More
On the turf
New from the Winter 2020 edition. John P O’Sullivan visits renowned horse painter Peter Curling at his home and studio in Tipperary Read More
Father and son
New from the Winter 2020 edition. Darragh O’Connell’s portrait of his son Mick is the winner of this year’s Ireland-U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the RHA annual exhibition writes Angela Griffith Read More
Burgundy light
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. Cristín Leach looks at Maeve McCarthy’s new paintings as she prepares for her forthcoming exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery Read More
A painter’s painter
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. Art critic Brian McAvera and artist Liam Belton recall the life and work of painter Michael Cullen Read More
Force of Nature
New from the Autumn 2020 edition.
James Gorry recalls the unique life and work of semi-reclusive painter Jeremiah Hoad, who quietly pursued his ‘gentle art’ Read More
Orchestral flair
New from the Autumn 2020 edition In a time when ‘visual culture’ can mean ‘words’, Jonathan Hunter continues to find rich possibilities in an insistently visual painterly language, writes William Gallagher Read More