The Origin Gallery, nominated the friendliest art gallery in Dublin by The Washington Post, has a reputation for both Irish and International artists who are either well established or emerging.
The gallery is relocating from its current address and will re-emerge in autumn 2019 in another part of town. In the meantime you can keep in touch as we will be able to serve you for any art requirements directly. Without the gallery overheads you will happy to receive a generous discount in advance of the opening of our new gallery space.
ART DIRECT from the Artist Retreat
Visit Origin online and join the art lovers club.
Helping the Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat (photo) and it’s Rent Free Residency. Programme ORIGIN ONLINE brings you the best of Irish and international art.
20% of each sale goes directly to the up keep of the Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat, made from the ruins of a 1790 pre famine village in SW Ireland.
This month’s offering…
Leading landscape painters capture Kerry in all its glory
ANDREW GIFFORD
‘Fir Trees at Sunset, Kerry’ € 3,950
Oil on board, 9.25 x 8.75 inches
Andrew Gifford, born in Sheffield, England, is an award winning and eminent English artist. He is one of over 4,900 artists, writers and poets who have had residencies at the restored pre-famine village of Cill Rialaig, now an International Artist Retreat on ‘the last road in Ireland’ Bolus Head. Recognised as one of the most innovative young landscape painters working today, Gifford’s skills capture the vivid, wild beauty of the Kerry landscape.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
LINDA GRAHAM
‘Marking Time’, Oil on board, 50 x 50cm. € 3,950
Linda Graham trained in Fine Art in the Hague, Netherlands and Art and Design in Kilmainham, Dublin in the 1970’s. Linda lives and works at her studio in North Kerry. She has works in collections in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Vatican, the United States, Singapore and Portugal. Linda paints contemporary landscapes and portraits in oil, including large works and murals. Her paintings may be seen in the gallery at Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs where Linda has had several artist residencies and now serves on the board of the project.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
EITHNE HEALY
‘Teehan’s Bar, Cromane’, Oil on canvas, 60 x 90cm. € 4,900
Dr. Eithne Healy is a former professor from East London University, where she obtained her doctorate in Fine Art and Film, after earning her bachelor’s degree at the Wimbledon School of Art. She currently teaches at the Hampstead School of Art, and has experience teaching artists of all levels, young and old. She has had several residencies at the Cill Rialaig Artist’s Retreat and her previous exhibitions shown in Cill Rialaig have focused on the themes of memory and connection to place, reflecting her time spent in South West Kerry from where she and her family originated.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
MAGGIE BROWN
Maggie Brown, ‘On the Winter Road to Portmagee’, Mixed media, 38 x 28cm. € 2,250
Passionate about nature and art, UK artist Maggie Brown has painted the special Kerry landscape in all its wild glory, the elements, and the unique light by using colour, surface pattern, and texture with a variety of media. Her paintings are a record, capturing quiet times of observation, of mountains and intimate hedges, little boreens or small roads, places so disregarded, that she feels they deserve a second glance!
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
SARAH CORNER
‘Pale Morning Light’, Oil on linen, 1280 x 951cm. €1,250
Born in Surrey, England in 1964, Sarah Corner grew up with a passion for painting and the natural world. After leaving school she first worked in London on the restoration of painted and gilded Antiques and Oriental Lacquer, including pieces for the V&A and Science museums and the Palace of Westminster. Moving to Tipperary in 2001 she was greatly inspired by the Irish landscape. After a rewarding residency at the Cill Rialaig Artist’s retreat in Ballinskelligs Co. Kerry in 2004 followed by a sell out show at Origin in 2005, her list of avid followers has grown greatly.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
SARAH LANGHAM
‘Evening Light, Ballinskelligs’, Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches. € 1,750
Sarah Langham, living in Co. Fermanagh, born in Dublin in 1960, has always been drawn to the ephemeral light and landscapes of the West of Ireland. Her childhood summers were spent by the sea in County Kerry, which explains where this love springs from. Having been an artist in residence at the Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat, it is clear how much the beauty of South West Ireland has had an impact on her as an artist. Her works have been purchased by collectors around the world.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
ROD COYNE
‘Winter Seahorse’, Oil on canvas, 80 x 80cm. € 2,900
Wicklow-based artist Rod Coyne imagines the way the Milesians saw the Skelligs or the bay of Ballinskelligs when the Blood Moon burns the water and rock red. This “other world” Coyne sets out to capture on his last trip to South West Kerry. He was further inspired by the colourful language used to describe the accidental and amazing change of light that surely is Nature’s ‘creativity.’
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
KEN BROWNE
‘Southwest of Ireland Landscape I’, Mixed media on canvas. 95x122cm. € 4,200
Born in Ringsend in Dublin, Ken Browne, once involved in music with Christy Dignam, is a self-taught artist who has had great success through his innovation and artistic mastery. His landscapes are deeply connected to human emotion, containing both a reverence for nature and the inner mind. He has had several residencies at Cill Rialaig as well as exhibitions all over Ireland and in the UK.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
CAROLE SHUBOTHAM
‘Bolus Head’, 4ft x 31/2 ft, Oil on canvas. € 5,900
Colour and texture define Carole Shubothams work, which tell a multitude of stories, each one a result of her free-spirited style, an idiosyncratic response to nature and the elements. There’s a deep sensuality of play in her work, fluid lines in her drawings and her apparent love of primal colours in her unforced relationship with the rural landscapes. Her journey from painstaking draftswoman to provocative expressionist is one that appears to be well worthwhile. She claims her strong draw to Kerry and Cill Rialaig has enhanced her work.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY at theorigingallery@gmail.com
Please contact theorigingallery@gmail.com or crsiopa@gmail.com or you can telephone 066 947 9277 or 066 947 9297.
If you would like to be added to our email list to keep up to date please send an email to theorigingallery@gmail.com with subject ‘add me to mailing list‘.
The Origin Gallery 