SARAH WALKER GALLERY

Castletownbere, Co. Cork, Ireland
presents



Jenny Richardson
&
Margaret O'Sullivan


 

Exhibition: 5th - 25th August 2001

Sarah Walker Gallery exhibits the work of two artists familiar to the Beara Peninsula, Jenny Richardson and Margaret O’Sullivan. Jenny Richardson moved here permanently from Scotland four years ago, although she has lived in Beara for various lengths of time over the last twenty years. Margaret O’Sullivan is a regular visitor to Beara who comes here specifically to paint the sea.

 

Jenny Richardson does still life paintings of her surroundings, vegetables, familiar objects in the kitchen etc. Her show at the Ashford gallery, Dublin last September included many paintings of vegetables, irresistible in their freshness. They are set against a reflective background, which is almost like a minimalist painting of a wet strand.

 

It is easy to see from the work of Margaret O’Sullivan that she really has an affinity with the sea.  She manages to capture its atmosphere so effectively that when looking at the work it is as if you can hear the waves and feel the tension of the swell under water. Even in some of her tiny paintings the pull of the tide is tangible. She is a regular exhibitor with the Paul Kane gallery in Dublin and currently has work in &quo;Case&quo; at the Lavit gallery, Cork.

 

The work of these two painters should compliment each other well; the exhibition will run until August 25th.

 

 

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