An Bhoireann

‘A Stony Place’ in the Irish is a wild landscape in the far west of Ireland. A unique place formed some 340 million years ago as the bed of a warm shallow sea. The visibly fossil rich layers of limestone that characterise “The Burren” produced by water erosion have resulted in a lunar landscape of stepped mountains – cliffs, caves, hollows and bare pavements. The Atlantic Ocean to the west and Galway Bay to the north enhance the vision with a glittering reflected light. The spirit of the place has attracted the artist and aesthetic since earliest times and everywhere the prehistoric is evident in stone. Galerie Pomie has gathered together 15 respected artists who live and work in The Burren to celebrate that spirit in painting, drawing, watercolours, scutpture, video and photography.

Biography for the artists in the “An Bhoireann” Show
Fionna Murray was born in London and studied at Chelsea College of Art before moving to Ireland in 1995 to complete a Masters at the University of Ulster, Belfast.She now lives and works in the Burren and teaches at the College of Art in Galway.
Her work has a notational, fragmentary quality where each drawing becomes another clue in a continuous mapping out of the landscape.

Jim McKee is from the north of Ireland. A self taught artist now living and working in the Burren, Co Clare. Jim has been captivated by the Burren landscape and feels that the move from the north has given him the freedom and space to focus on his work. He has participated in many successful group and solo exhibitions. “Perfect Happiness is walking across a field with a blank canvas and a bag of new oils and no clothes!”

Keith Payne lived and worked in the Burren for 15 years and has always had a fascination with the ancient landscape. He now lives ,paints and sculpts here in Pomie, France.

Susan Morley, a Dublin-born artist, had her first solo show in her native city in 1976. She has since exhibited regularly in Ireland, in the Solomon and Origin Galleries, the Gate Theatre, Dublin, Tom Caldwell Galleries,Dublin and Belfast .amongst many others. She has shown work in London and Italy, where she has lived & painted for many years, and most recently in the Languedoc region, where she now spends much of her time.

Scottish painter Hazel Walker moved to Ireland in 1993, she studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art 1981-85 and MA in drawing at Wimbledon School of Art 2000. Walker currently lives and works in Co Clare. Recent solo exhibitions include Judy Goldman Fine Art Boston USA (2005) Linenhall Arts Centre (2004), Galleria BE19 Helsinki,Finland. Her work is in public and private collections.

Susanna Ehlert was born and educated in Germany - Living in the west of Ireland since 1986.
She is a young artist... full of vitality and promise. An excellent colourist, her large format oil and mixed media paintings are easily recognisable for their distinct energy and subject matter."

Ilsa Thielan evocative photographs of the landscape capture the essence of what is one of the most beautiful country-sides."

Marie Connole born 1981, is originally from Liscannor in Co. Clare. She moved to Dublin in 1999 where she studied at the National College of Art and Design and received the B.A. Joint Degree in History of Art and Fine Art. She was awarded the Spiresart Award for her B.A. Degree Show in 2003. This was followed by awards from Clare County Council in 2004 for a studio residency at the Burren College of Art and a study bursary in 2005 to pursue a Master of Fine Art also at the BCA. Connole has exhibited widely in both Ireland and Europe .

Timothy Emlyn Jones is a Welsh artist who settled in the Burren, Ireland. He has exhibited internationally and is represented in public collections in a number of countries. His recent exhibitions include Beijing , China ; Dundee, Scotland ; Galway, Ireland ; Sydney ,Australia ; Venice, Italy ; and he was recently shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in the UK. The art critic Mel Gooding writes » Tim Jones is one of those artists who take it upon themselves to re-learn the nature of drawing and its possibilities of expression. He is the type of artist whose impulses are experimental, the outcomes of whose research are unpredictable and revelatory. He has opted to explore some of the most basic aspects of drawing : the subject on which he focusses with such intensity, the theme of his creative meditations, is drawing itself. More precisely, his work is concerned with the relation of the drawn image to out perceptions of the phenomenal world, and out feelings about it »

Deirdre O’Mahony was born in Limerick and studied at St Martins School of Art, London an MA in Fine Art at the Crawford College, Cork. Selected exhibitions include EV+A2005, Bloom, Tulca Visual Arts Festival 2004, Leabhar Mor na Gaelige, The Gluxman, Cork 2005 and the Wall, Context Gallery Derry and LCGA 2002. Awards include Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellowship ; 1995 and bursaries from An Chomhairle Ealaionn/ The Arts Council 1997/2001. She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and she is currently undertaking an Mphil/PhD in Fine Art practice at the University of Brighton in the UK.

Denise Ryan studied painting at the Limerick School of Art. She has had four one person shows and has exhibited regularly in group and invited shows and selected exhibitions including the RHA. She has participated in numerous two and four man shows the most recent of which were : 2000 Doswell Gallery, Limerick ; East Meets West, Monaghan 75 Gallery, Limerick ; Mrau Gallery, Ballyvaughan ; Metatron , Enniskerry ; Flow of minds Loughrea ; Moments of Time, 75 Gallery. She is a full time artist.

Judy O’Sullivan is an Irish artist working in mixed media. In her current pieces she explores the combination of soft muslin, stitching, paper with the enduring nature of wood. Influenced by sacred imagery and the ritual art objects in everyday life, she is interested in the healing role of art. A fine art graduate of Crawford College of Art, Cork and University Collecr Cork with post graduate studies in art therapy and colour therapy she works from her studio near the Burren in Co. Clare.

Deborah O’Hehir was born in England but grew up in Kinvara, Co. Galway. She now lives in Manorhamilton, Co.Leitrim. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland and England and her works are included in many private and public collections.

Manus Walsh has been living and working in the Burren for the past thirty years and this unique area has had a profound influence on his work. Manus has had more than thirty five solo exhibitions including shows in Chile and Spain. He has also designed for stain glass, including five windows in Galway Cathedral and recently the Michael Greene window in Ballyvaughan.

Sabine Springer born in Germany has lived in Ireland since 1990. She studied biology at the University of Galway . In 1996 during her studies of zoology , botany and geology she became a painter-engraver. Her great grand father and her grand father were both engravers in Stuttgatr. Sabine remembers the way they both worked. She mixes the ancient technic of engraving with that of the most recent ; dry brush engraving ink of animals placed directly on the plaque. Since her childhood Sabine has been fascinated by nature. Her desire is to communicate with with all this fascination to make us all more sensitive to the nature that surrounds us.

STONEAGE TO THE STONES

ICON - A Veritable Exhibition of the Eclectic

Galerie Pomie bursts on the scene this year with an enthralling exhibition which takes one into the mysterious and enchanting world of iconology and the study of symbolism.

The gallery's director, Keith Payne, has brought together the works of a plethora of artists ancient and modern to celebrate that most fascinating of subjects, the icon, and those sacred and indeed not-so-sacred personages behind the myriads of images which have become icons to mankind since the dawn of time.

From Cave Art to Mary Mother of Jesus to David Beckham, from the Dalai Lama to Elvis to Kylie Minogue, the revered image as perceived through the human collective consciousness skips impertinently from the mysterious and deeply disturbing to the outright frivolous. Consider the works of Ronnie Wood, the craggy Rolling Stones guitarist against the exquisite bronzes of Moussa Ouattara; compare the Sixties kitsch of Warhol to the more traditional works of Tibetan monks and primitive African tribesmen; this is an exciting but ultimately serious insight into that which makes us tick, that which for whatever reason, happens to become an iconic image, be it an object of reverence or an object of distaste.

From gold leaf to plastic, from the grotesque demons of exhibition will engage and focus the attention like few others. Buddhist hell to the provocative pose of today's starlet, this

2nd April until 31st October every day 14h -19h

Artists include: LYNDA MILLER BAKER, MOUSSA OUATTARA, KEITH PAYNE, LAURA DOLL, RONNIE WOOD, JOHN SHARKEY, ANDY WARHOL, JACK PAYNE, MANUELA ZERVUDACHI, MARY LLOYD JONES, NIGEL WELLINGS, MARK PLAZZOTTA, MIRANDA WALKER, STEVEN BARRETT, PATRICK LAINVILLE, KATERINA JEBB.

Exhibition August 2007 Salle Saint Martin Souillac

Exposition Aout 2007 Salle Saint Martin Souillac

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