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Item # FA-103
Liam Jones (Irish 20th Century)
Oil on canvas landscape of West Cork, Ireland.
size: 24" x 36" + carved and gilt frame.
Liam
Jones was born in Ballina, Co. Mayo.Ireland. The wild beauty
of the
surrounding countryside was a powerful catalyst in moving him into the
world of landscape painting. He is widely travelled having worked in
Europe and America, but he was continually drawn back to this country
and to the West of Ireland in particular. He held his first one-man
exhibition in Dublin. Since then he has been recording, in a personal
way, the ever-changing moods and light of the West.
“Aerach” is a word
that could describe his work. There is a wonderful sense of space in
these paintings, a tranquility where nothing is hurried. Liam moves
effortlessly from the small detail to wide panoramas. In doing so, he
shows us some conic images, but most of the images in this collection
reflect his motto, “Within the ordinary lies the
extraordinary”. The
artist himself says, “no Poet, no Painter can ever fully
capture all
that is contained in the landscape. In fleeting moments when
our pride
takes a grip we feel we have it – we’ve got it, but
then the landscape
merely changes and invites us further in. The landscape surely is a
reflection of the divine. It is eternal. As a humble Painter I can only
stand in awe, in reverence before it and merely scratch at its
surface.”
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