St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #19

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Today our featured artists are Mary Rohan, Una Sealy, Bettina Seitz, Angie Shanahan and Anita Shelbourne.

We also include the poem “A Single Rose” by Leland Bardwell. Leland’s poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Rohan, Mary - The womens calls go up across the lake

€480.00

oil on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Mary Rohan, born in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.  Living in County Sligo since 1993.  Exhibited with various galleries - Kilcock Gallery, Co. Kildare. Oisin Gallery and Solomon Gallery, Dublin and Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

“ My inspiration in Leland Bardwell’s poem is nature based.  The women celebrating in the landscape, the coming of Spring, Brigid’s day.  Her poem evokes images of the ritual gathering of the rushes, and the making of St. Brigid’s crosses.”

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From Dostoevsky’s Grave | Leland Bardwell |

Published by Dedalus Press.

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Sealy, Una - A Donegal childhood winter

€600.00

Una Sealy Born in Dublin where she still lives. A graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art (now IADT). She is a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and a tutor at the RHA School.

 I spent holidays as a child in my grandmother’s cottage in Donegal, and still go there with my own family. The black iron beds remain, and the only décor is the St Brigid’s crosses, made from rushes long ago.

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Seitz Bettina - Brat Bhríde / Brigid's Cloak

€1,950.00

jesmonite, acrylic resin, fabric

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Bettina Seitz: Born 1963 in Lohr, Germany, now lives in Sligo, Ireland.  Studied sculpture in Germany and Italy from 1988-1993.  Since 1992 national and international exhibitions, public and private commissions, work in numerous collections around the world.

 “The artwork is inspired by the legend of St. Brigid's cloak - the expanding cloth as a metaphor for the importance of spirituality, female energy and ancient rituals for our times.”

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Shanahan, Angie - To the lake

€1,250.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Angela Shanahan

Graduated Crawford College of Art and Design 1980's.  Award winning painter. Work in private and public collections.  Studio in Cork City, works frequently in West Cork and Italy.   Has collaborated with writers and poets

 To the Lake St Brigid's Day.

Winter; a flooded track, sliver of light on distant lake.

Words on slender branches lead skyward, women's ‘voices whip the air’

Crow; symbol of prophecy, Brigid cross floats; say YES 2018.

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Shelbourne, Anita - Naomh Brid Celtic Goddess

€1,200.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Anita Shelbourne: Anita studied at the NCAD, Trinity College, and London. Notable awards Irish Arts Council Bursary, the De Veres Award for Distinction, Irish Arts Council Bursary 2018.  Collections in Irish Embassy in South Korea, Greece, and Japan, also Bank of Ireland and AIB.  Currently showing in Taylor’s Gallery Dublin.

 “Research showed St Brigid was a Celtic goddess - painting wanted to emphasise this showing she was both human and angelic.” 

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St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #18

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Alison Pilkington, Paula Pholi, Fiona Power, Sarah Quick and Maureen Quinn.

We also include the poem “Obituary for Leland Bardwell” by Leland Bardwell. Leland’s poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Pilkington, Alison - I Build My Own Island

€600.00

oil on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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Alison Pilkington: Alison Pilkington holds a PhD in painting.  She was a prize winner at Royal Academy Summer Show London 2012, selected for the Marmite Painting Prize, London 2012 and 2016.   Prizewinner at the Artslant International Jurors Award in Dec 2013.

 References to paintings from different periods of art history frequently come through her paintings as well as classical portraiture, landscape painting and the sublime. The paintings are frequently charged with a visual tension and are both humorous and unsettling

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From The Noise of Masonry Settling | Leland Bardwell |

Published by Dedalus Press.

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Pohli, Paula - Memento Mori - St. Brigid

€325.00

Paula Pohli a Dubliner, lives in Mayo. She makes hand-burnished Lino cuts in limited editions since 1990 and paints in egg tempera. Paula held 8 Solo shows & 3 Print Presentations in the USA, 2012. Her prints appeared in 27 International Print Biennials.

“Memento Mori, Brigid is a lino cut mounted on canvas. It connects to the world of Grunewald's Crucifixion. The suffering behind the beauty of a St Brigid's cross inspired this work.”

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Power, Fiona - Road to the shore

€680.00

oil on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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Fiona Power: Born in London of Irish parents, Fiona moved to the North-west of Ireland when she was 12. Fiona has lived in West Cork for 25 years, where she paints from her studio overlooking Dunmanus Bay inspired by the changing light of the landscape.

 “The strong stone wall guides the viewer’s eyes towards the figures on the shoreline, also dividing the warmth and stability of the road (representing the past) against the cool and changeable water (representing the fluidity of the future).  The warm clouds of the evening sky against the bare winter trees signal the end of winter.”

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Quick, Sarah - An Talamh

€375.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Sarah Quick: Sarah Quick is a Canadian-Irish Artist. She studied Fine Art at Mount Allison University and was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. She lives in the Burren, Co. Clare.

 “An Talamh represents generations of women who, in their struggle, have claimed new ground for those coming after. The painting is the artist’s hand in the clay of her craft.”

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Quinn, Maureen - St. Brigid

€795.00

egg tempera on gessoed panel with 23.5 carat gold leaf

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Maureen Quinn: I am originally from Ballinasloe, Co Galway and now reside in Sligo.  Holy icons spoke to me like no other art form as a result of my visits to museums and churches in Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Russia.  Ì answered the call, learned from the most eminent and exhibited in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Derry and Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.

 History tell us that St. Brigid was an inveterate traveller around Ireland, driven by her faith in God and love for the poor. That image of an all action woman, contrasts with my icon depiction of her in quieter moments, which in contemporary parlance would be referred to as being in the now.

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St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #17

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Gwen O’Dowd, Sorca O’Farrell, Caitriona O’Leary, Geraldine O’Reilly and Helen O’Toole

We also include the poem “Innismurray” by Leland Bardwell. Leland’s poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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O'Dowd, Gwen - EDGE

€650.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Gwen O’Dowd began exhibiting in the mid 1980’s. Her formal concerns have always been rooted deeply in the tradition of landscape painting. Yet the specific locales from which she has drawn inspiration, the modes of addressing them and the methaphoric import of the resulting series of paintings have varied considerably over the years.

“Michael Harding described Leland Bardwell as having ‘the softest wildness I’ve ever seen in human eyes’. I have tried to see through those eyes at the soft wild landscape that inspired her.”

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From The Noise of Masonry Settling | Leland Bardwell |

Published by Dedalus Press.

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O'Farrell, Sorca - ....across the lake on this still day...

€300.00

charcoal ink pastel on panel

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Sorca O’Farrell Sorca is a landscape artist from Dublin. She qualified with a degree from N.C.A.D., and has exhibited work in The National Gallery, the R.H.A., the R.U.A. and other group shows.  She had a recent solo show at The Hamilton Gallery.

“The women’s calls go up across the lake. On this still day……..”

I immediately found inspiration for my drawing in the vivid imagery described in this poem.

I could clearly visualise this still island of trees as the view from the “reed-hushed” shore, across the calm water of the lake.

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O'Leary, Caitriona - They trail the shore

€350.00

oil on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

Caitriona O’Leary

Caitriona is an Irish born painter who lives in Barcelona. She was originally from Cork but grew up in Sligo.

 “My painting, ‘They trail the shore’ is based on a specific place called Lady’s Brae in Co. Sligo where my mother’s ancestors are from and where, as my mother says, you can almost feel the presence of the past.

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O'Reilly, Geraldine - I too will make a Cross – Leland Bardwell

€850.00

oil on canvas

20 cm X 20 cm

unframed

Geraldine O’Reilly: A native of Rathwire, Killucan, Co Westmeath and still lives in the area.

 ‘I too will make a cross- Leland Bardwell’. As soon as I read the poem, I had this very strong image of Leland standing beside a lake, imagining her thinking about writing the poem ‘St. Bridget’s Day 1989’.   The lake is in County Monaghan and it’s where I got to know Leland as we were both living there at the same time.

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Helen O’Toole was born in the west of Ireland. She attended the RTC Sligo; the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, BA with 1st class honors in Painting, 1986; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA in Painting, 1989; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1989. She is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, a 2016 Contemporary Northwest Art Award, a Pollock Krasner Award in 2013, the Jack and Grace Pruzan Fellowship for 2009-2012 and 2013- 2015, and numerous other awards and research grants.

St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #16

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Jane Murtagh, Leonora Neary, Hilary Nunan, Cora O’Brien, and Anastasia O’Donoghue Healy

We also include the poem “Barnacles” by Leland Bardwell. Leland’s poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Murtagh, Jane - Whipping the air with seed heads

€1,425.00

etched  copper, patinated and gilded

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Jane Murtagh Born in Dublin, she now lives and works on a farm in Cratloe, Co Clare where she established her metal-smithing studio 20 years ago. Jane graduated in Fine Art from Dun Laoghaire School of Art & Design specialising in metalwork and drawing. She works with nonferrous metals developing a visual narrative using the techniques of repousse, etching and gilding.

 “I live on a farm by the Shannon where reeds grow along the shore.  Walking down through the fields towards the river on a windy autumnal day, the reeds swayed.  I thought about Leyland Bardwell standing very still by the water, watching and listening, words weaving through her mind.   Picking up seeds, light as feathers, I get drawing, teasing the lines along until at last I see something I know could work in metal.”

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From The Noise of Masonry Settling | Leland Bardwell |

Published by Dedalus Press.

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Neary, Leonora - blest by everything

€520.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Leonora Neary

From Roscommon, Leonora graduated from the University of Ulster in Belfast with an honour’s degree in Visual Communication. Her work has featured in both the RHA and RUA annual exhibitions and she has been awarded residencies at Cill Rialaig and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

My piece, blest by everything takes its inspiration from St Brigid's close bond with the natural world, reminding us of our duty of care to our environment.

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Nunan, Hilary - The Bog

€335.00

acrylic and natural fibre

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Hilary Nunan: Colour, texture and a love of nature inspires my work which is largely intuitive with an emphasis on the materials I use and the process of making in response to my environment.

 My response to Leland Bardwell’s poem ‘St. Brigid’s Day 1989’: Behind the reed hushed margins, I hear what Leland was saying ……. I hope Leland can hear what I am saying as I look across the bog. 

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O'Brien, Cora - On this still day

€650.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Cora O’Brien: Born in Belfast, grew up in Newbridge, Kildare, lives and works in Dublin. Studied in Dublin Institute of Technology and NCAD. O’Brien has had solo exhibitions and has exhibited at RHA, RUA, and many other juried shows.
”The portrait shows a woman of anytime, anywhere, making a strong presence - like Brigid. Her simple red dress conveys her strength, knowledge and pioneering spirit, and that she is of no particular social status. She is intent on her work.”

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O'Donoghue Healy, Anastasia - In Celebration of Brigid

€980.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Anastasia O’Donoghue Healy Originally from Wexford Anastasia is a self-taught painter living in West Cork. Her paintings reflect a meeting of her exterior journey in the landscape with her personal interior journeying which she captures intuitively by her use of colour and mark making.

 Some years ago, I visited an exhibition titled “Analysing Cubism” at The Crawford Gallery. Inspired by its’ women artists, my childhood experiences of riding bare backed and the county of Kildare together with the imagery within Bardwell’s poem my drawing and intuition found this response.

St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #15

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Carolyn Mulholland, Coby Moore, Zoë Murdoch, Jay Murphy and Vivien Murray.

We also include the poem “Megan Fair Remembered“ by Leland Bardwell. Leland’s poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Mulholland, Carolyn - St. Brigid's Day 1989

€1,340.00

pencil and pastel on paper on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Carolyn Mullholland

I was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh on 1st February 1944.  During and after Belfast College of Art I lived from my work.  I moved to Dublin in 1991 and thanks to the support of Arts Councils, North and South, I continue to work in bronze, stone and glass.

Leland Bardwell’s poem nudged me beyond Christianity far into he past.  The celebration of the arrival of the ‘first light’ – is as on as we are.

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From “The Noise of Masonry Settling” by Leland Bardwell. Published by Dedalus Press

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Moore, Coby - The Gathering

€250.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Murdoch, Zoë - The Reaping

€280.00

collage

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Zoë Murdoch Born and lives in Belfast.   She is currently based at Lawrence Street Workshops. In 2012 she was elected as an Associate Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. 

“Inspired by the Leland Bardwell poem ‘St. Brigid’s Day 1989’ 'The Reaping' illustrates my vision of a coven of witches gathering reeds, in their own distorted way, in a mysterious otherworldly place.” 

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Murphy, Jay - brigid's cloak and native oak

€450.00

mixed media

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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Jay Murphy was born in Dublin in 1952. She studied at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art and the Central School in London. She travelled in Switzerland and Bavaria before returning to Ireland to live in Connemara. She is a founder member of Fioruisce and of Western Artists.

She has illustrated a number of books, notably Gonella and Litany for the Pig by Eva Bourke.

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Murray, Vivien - across the lake

€345.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Vivien Murray was born in Sydney, Australia part of the post-war baby boom. In the 70's married an Irishman and has lived in Sligo since then. Reared her children here and as a mature student studied Fine Art at Sligo IT.

 I visualised the poet at home looking out her window across the water waiting for her women friends to call with the reeds to make the crosses and celebrate St Brigid's Day.

St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #14

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Trudie Mooney, Póilín Mc Gowan, Margo McNulty, Catherine Mc Williams and Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh.

We also include the poem “Where the grass is dark with trees“ by Leland Bardwell. Leland’s poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Mooney, Trudie - Some New Words for An Old Cloak

€1,400.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Trudie Mooney

I was born in Brighton in 1961. After graduating and spending time in London and Barcelona I moved to Ramelton, Donegal in1993.  I currently live and work near Claremorris, Mayo.

 “St Brigid's cloak is a symbol of female strength and perseverance.  The ongoing elevation of women in our society has reached a level that our great grandmothers could only aspire to, but which is within reach for our daughters.’

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From “The Noise of Masonry Settling” by Leland Bardwell. Published by Dedalus Press

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Mc Gowan, Póilín - Ready for Gathering

€400.00

encaustic wax and mixed media on board

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Póilín Mc Gowan: Born in Co. Sligo where she still resides, Póilín draws inspiration from her surroundings of Maugherow’s Wild Atlantic Way, where Leyland lived her final days. She creates semi-abstract oil and encaustic wax paintings of the sea and local landscape.

“Ready for Gathering’ is created using encaustic wax and mixed media to capture the scene of an untouched reed bed, waiting to be picked. The pagan festival (Imbolc) marks the beginning of spring, I wish to convey the romantic content symbolising women’s hardships, camaraderie and strength, of what is to come, all of which Leyland Bardwell passionately writes of.

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Mc Nulty, Margo - Athbhreith

€600.00

oil on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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Mc Williams, Catherine - Young Bridget

€325.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Catherine McWilliams: The Mourne and Cooley mountains dominated my world as a child but growing up and living in Belfast, it’s surrounding hills that speak to me.  In the dark days of the seventies my paintings were of figures in bleak oppressive landscapes. But in the eighties in the all woman show Pandora’s Box my Pandora was the hopeful figure temporarily trapped in the box.

Here Young Bridget walks freely and happily amongst the rushes that grow in my local Waterworks park.

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Ní Mhaonaigh, Sinéad - Fadó, Fadó

€3,000.00

oil on canvas

40 cm x 40 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Photo by Amelia Stein

St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #13

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Eileen MacDonagh, Kate Mac Donagh, Bernie Masterson and Mary Mc Caffrey.

We also include the poem “Four Woodbines“ by Leland Bardwell. Lelands poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Mac Donagh, Eileen - Bridget.....

€500.00

Irish limestone

30 cm x 30 cm

Eileen MacDonagh was born in Co.Sligo and has worked as a sculptor since the early 1980s. Her work has featured in many exhibitions, both in Ireland and abroad, including shows in Portugal, Scotland, India and Japan.Eileen has both organised and participated in many symposia, in Ireland and abroad; her work is included in numerous collections, such as the OPW, Kilkenny and Cork County Councils, Marlay Park, Dublin and Tawara Newtown, Osaka, Japan.

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From “The Noise of Masonry Settling” by Leland Bardwell. Published by Dedalus Press

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Mac Donagh, Kate - Russet

€550.00

watercolour on Ozu Washi

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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Kate MacDonagh is a Sligo born artist currently living and working in Dublin. She studied at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York, and at MI- LAB, Fujikawaguchiko Studio, Japan.

Kate is a member of the Graphic Studio Dublin.

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Masterson, Bernie - The women's calls go up across the lake

€400.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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Bernie Masterson

Bernie Masterson is a visual artist born in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Her practice explores the human condition through a social, political and cultural forum. She lives and works in Dublin.

 “This work make reference to Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream' in the context of todays political, cultural and social struggle for women, nationally and internationally. St. Brigid was a leader of women.”

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Mc Caffrey, Mary - Trailing the Shore

€495.00

oil on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

Mary Mc Caffrey Mary McCaffrey (nee Mulligan) born in Bornacoola, Co. Leitrim and lives and works in Belfast.  Achieved a Master’s Degree in Fine Art in 2010 at the Ulster University, Belfast.

 “The single white shape of the paper boat is strategically placed as the centre of interest, with St. Brigid’s cross ‘for luck’.  There is hope as it bobs along, the youthful hope that all our children have. “

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St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #12

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Brid Mac Conville, Deborah Lee, Dorothee Kölle, and Catherine Mac Conville.

We also include the poem “In My Darling Liza’s Eyes” by Leland Bardwell. Lelands poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Mac Conville, Brid - On this still day their voices whip the air

€500.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available

Brid Mac Conville. Dublin born. Lived in diverse cultures of Canada and Japan. Honours graduate (painting) 1984 Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver Canada.  Living in Ireland on the northwest coast since 2000.

 “Semi- abstract work of this dreamlike landscape conjured by the poet, of figures engrossed in the gathering of reeds, a ritual enacted through the play of light and water reflections.”

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From “The Noise of Masonry Settling” by Leland Bardwell. Published by Dedalus Press

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Lee, Deborah - For Kitty

€200.00

mixed media on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Deborah Lee.   I am an artist based in Sheffield, working primarily with mixed media to produce abstract art. My influences are taken from my love for exploring  the sensation of mark-making. I enjoy creating compositions that relate to the energy and space within and around objects, landscapes and seascapes. Colour is used as a code or language to express my emotional response

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Kölle, Dorothee - decades that divide us

€450.00

egg tempera, fabric

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Mac Conville, Catherine - my children's, children's children

€465.00

mixed media

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Catherine Mac Conville

Catherine Mac Conville was born and grew up in Dublin and studied design at NCAD. She moved to the north west and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from IT Sligo. “Below an image of her mother and her mother's sisters she inscribes names all the women in her family circle, from Bridget Campbell, born 1784, to Luisa Carroll, born November 2018. A celebration of each of them under the mantle of St Brigid.”

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St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #11

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Molly Judd, Rebecca Jobson, Josephine Kelly and Elizabeth Kinsella.

We also include the poem “Matisse Woman” by Leland Bardwell. Lelands poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Judd, Molly - First Light

€3,300.00

oil on wood

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Molly Judd was born 1991 in Wicklow, Ireland. She began her studies at 18 at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.  In 2011, she began an apprenticeship with Odd Nerdrum and studied at his Atelier in both Norway and Paris. Molly continues to paint from her studio in Westmeath.   

 “In this portrait my focus was to express the turning from darkness to light. The painting represents the halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox also known as St. Brigid’s Day.”

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From “The White Beach” Leland Bardwell. New And Selected Poems 1960 - 1998. Published by Salmon Poetry

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Jobson, Rebecca - The Gatherer

€850.00

oil on canvas on board

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Rebecca Jobson was born in Dublin. She currently lives and works in County Sligo. She studied at City and Guilds and Wimbledon School of Art in London. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with her works held in private and public collections.

 “The artists’ mother, while gathering the rushes to thatch the roof of her first marital home, lost her wedding ring. Personifying a story of love is a powerful, resilient and beautiful woman looking back on her life and to the land that sustains her.”

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Kelly, Josephine - The Gathering

€860.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Josephine Kelly

I was born in Donegal in 1975.I graduated from the University of Ulster, Belfast in 1997 with a degree in Fine Art and returned to Buncrana where I live and work.

My work is inspired by the local landscape and my daily passage through it. These works are a visual diary of season, weather and light.rigid’s Day.Portugal.”

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Kinsella, Elizabeth - Staccato Notes

€800.00

acrylic on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Elizabeth Kinsella: Fine Art lecturer for 26 years in Sligo. Recent exhibitions 'Unfolding the Archive', NCAD Gallery, FE Mc William Gallery and Bankstreet Gallery Sheffield and 'Hybrid' exhibition/residency, Redline Art Centre, Denver.

“ The poem evoked St Brigid's Cross convent classes, hands too small, precious reeds, stiff card jangly coloured struggles, battered trials, jagged cruciform, tempered nun spinning out staccato notes.”

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St Brigid's Day London 2019 / Blog #10

Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.

The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day, and it is part of the Irish Embassy in London’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration of Women and creativity.

In the run up to our opening night in London we bring you a daily blog with a selection of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.

We will include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.

Tonight our artists are Lisa Gingles, Janet Graham, Catherine Greene and Angela Hackett.

We also include the poem “Seasons” by Leland Bardwell. Lelands poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” was circulated to all participating artists as the thematic inspiration for the exhibition.

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Higgins Ní Chinnéide, Bríd - Sheaf

€500.00

oil on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Bríd Higgins Ní Chinnéide is a Dublin-born artist. She studied painting in St Petersburg and has lived in the US and the UK. She has returned to Ireland and now works from her home studio in Dublin.

“I was inspired by the image of the women gathering rushes, something I have done myself. The depiction of the hands holding the rushes, is a synecdoche of female industry and craft and a connection with the natural world. The reference for the work was an image of myself, which is appropriate here given my name.”

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From “The White Beach” New And Selected Poems 1960 - 1998. Published by Salmon Poetry

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Harrison, Annie - The satchel of these years

€350.00

ink & acrylic on fabriano on canvas

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

Annie Harrison|: “Born in the U.K., I have lived more than half of my life in the North West of Ireland.  I returned to painting as a mature student and completed my Degree in 2002. I chose to make this work on a potentially delicate (e.g. paper) ground in an attempt to explore converse concepts such as fragility and resilience in relation to the inevitability of ageing.

People, like stamps, are prone to wear and tear. Yet both may safely travel the globe. The Irish Worldwide stamp motif acknowledges Irelands own global diaspora.

The subject is caught off guard in vulnerable, eyes-closed pose, an introspective gaze. Anonymous and unwitting representative of the windswept amongst us, she carries the “satchel” of her (our) years with enduring, yet inevitably transient, grace.”

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Hudak, Patty - Behind the Reed Hushed Margin

€500.00

acrylic and spray paint on wood panel

30 cm x 30 cm

unframed

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Hudak, Patty was born and raised in America and is of Irish heritage; her mother is from Bruff in County Limerick. She spent the last 12 years living and working in the cities of Tokyo, Beijing, and Hong Kong, and has recently moved to rural Vermont in the USA.

“In my painting, Behind the Reed Hushed Margin, brilliant orbs represent the spirit of youth, viewed from behind a barrier of shadowed drips. Through the ever-expanding veil of age and wisdom, we remember our younger selves, measured by the ritual marking of St Brigid’s Day.Portugal.”

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Hunter, Alison - Across the lake

€260.00

hand stitching on ash bark

30 cm X 30 cm

unframed

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