Explore vvaassya2014's 11775 photos on Flickr!

every once in a wee while my eye catches a glimpse of treasures that make me catch my breath and i did gasp when i saw the wonderful sculptures by irish artist fidelma massey creatures from her imagination and yet they have a familiar feel to them steeped in mythology & otherworldliness they speak of times long past or of wonders hidden just beyond our world her site is so very worth a visit many more treasure to behold here

This June, Sotheby’s will be offering a group of Ben Nicholson still life works as part of the Modern & Post-War British Art sales on 18th & 19th June. The genre of still-life was at the heart of Ben Nicholson’s practice, from his earliest work in the 1920s through to 1949 when he created Still"u2026

Pat Tracey's artwork. Pat's giving art classes from Tuesday, March 15th (10am - 1pm over 7 weeks)., Pat Tracey

Kilkenny born painter Tony O’Malley began painting full time in 1958 having worked as a Bank Clerk previously while painting in his spare time. He is best known for his pain...

Nick Miller was born in London in 1962 and attended the University of East Anglia, graduating in Development Studies in 1984. Shortly after, Miller moved to Ireland, where he ...

Kilkenny born painter Tony O’Malley began painting full time in 1958 having worked as a Bank Clerk previously while painting in his spare time. He is best known for his pain...

In the 1880s New York swarmed with the children of the desperate poor. However, in such paintings as A Tough Story, the squalor and viciousness of urban poverty are ignored. Instead, the artist invents a sentimental fiction. His young bootblacks are poor but industrious. They elicit not our concern for their plight but our admiration for their pluck. Would we regard them differently if the boys were grown men? The artist’s plain, craftsmanlike realism only enhances the credibility of the scene. The name Pat, carved into one boy’s blacking box, identifies the lad as an Irish immigrant. Though dressed in rags, the boys are well scrubbed and well fed. However, look at their eyes: the artist is too honest to disguise the weariness. [North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh - Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 76.5 cm]

Nick Miller was born in London in 1962 and attended the University of East Anglia, graduating in Development Studies in 1984. Shortly after, Miller moved to Ireland, where he ...

18MAR11 SLYNNLEE-132503