About
I am an artist and architect based in Camlough, Newry, South Armagh, Northern Ireland. I paint pictures in acrylic, water colour and oil ,from the subject and memory, of scenes around Camlough, Bessbrook and Newry. I paint Irish subjects, portraits and from the imagination. I do not paint or draw from photographs. You can view recent work online here or see what was in the February 2010 Olive exhibition here.
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Exhibition
I took part in the Architect as Artist exhibition in Malone House in
Belfast, December and 1st week January, 2010/11. The exhibition was well
subscribed to by architect/artists and there were some beautiful
paintings to be seen. The landscapes of Paul O'Kane
particularly impressed me as did the surreal graphics of Colin Maxwell, a
departure from his beautifully rendered buildings of last year. There
were some sensitive portraits by Inez Mawhinney and wonderfully
colourful photographs by Tânia Marques who were exhibiting for the 1st
time. I showed 'Copters and Crows' and 'Atop Camlough Mountain'. You can
see them here or on the fabulous New Irish Art website newirishart.com
Recently
I had been painting every day up until about 4 weeks ago when work on the design of Camlough Community Association's proposed new community centre as well as the design of a new dwelling for a client preoccupied me. I will get back to it this week now that I've taken my architectural proposals to a stage where I'm awaiting comment. This summer's weather has been a dream and I have been as observant as I could be with actually painting or drawing anything. A particularly memorable occasion was going fishing at Greenore with my 12 year old son where we were presented with a display of 2 tall ships sailing and an air-sea rescue helicopter demonstration. The helicopter was enormous and the way it hung stationary in the air just looked impossible. One of the tall ships definitely looked like a pirate ship. Buy
Current prices range from around £100 for a drawing, around £250 to £500 for a painting from the subject, and around £500 to £1500 for an imaginative composition. To buy a painting or drawing email mailto:francisgerard.mcshane@googlemail.com.
Links
To see some of my work and lots of other Irish artists work visit http://www.NewIrishArt.com
The Shelbourne Cafe, Hill St., Newry have shown and sold my pictures - and great food and coffee
The Olive Cafe, Newry 028-30267272 where I had an exhibition in February, 2010
Sigvardson Gallery, Rodby, Denmark www.sigvardson.com Mr. Bo Sigvardson kindly asked me to exhibit in his very interesting gallery in Denmark.
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