Gallery Calendar of Exhibitions and EventsPast, Present and Future |
December 2012 | Selection of New Artworks for Christmas 2012 view
Selection of New Artworks for Christmas 2012 |
November 2012 | New work by Trevor Geoghegan view
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October 2012 | New works by Sarah Corner & Michael Flaherty view
New works by Sarah Corner & Michael Flaherty |
September 2012 | “Gypsy Horses and Venice 2012” view
Patrick Cahill. Born in Dublin 1954, has been working as an artist for over thirty years. He is best known for his very personal interpretations of the streets and buildings of his native city, and most particularly his unique observations of the Horse Fair in Dublin’s Smithfield.
Alongside these paintings Patrick has a capsule collection of Oils and Watercolours from a visit to Venice early in 2012. His direct and spontaneous style of painting includes watercolour studies painted on location. Patrick’s subject matter is now diverse; however, he has come to realize that most of his paintings are of Dublin life, not so much by design, but has become his main source of inspiration.
Kilcock Art Gallery has been showing Patrick Cahill’s work for 25 years and we are delighted to show this new collection of oil and watercolour paintings.
Kilcock Art Gallery are donating 5% of all sales from the exhibition "Gypsy Ponies " to NEAS, a rescue sanctuary for animals in Ballivor, Co. Meath which is providing a solution for the growing number of unwanted and neglected exotic animals needing permanent expert care and specialised accommodation. Especially horses that have been abandoned, mistreated or their owners can no longer afford to keep them. They have rescued 37 starved and mistreated horses and donkeys so far, and are urgently raising funds to build a new pony shelter and another stable block.
The Sanctuary has Charity Tax Exemption Status (CHY 19373) and is approved by the Dept. of Agriculture. People involved are all volunteers and NEAS have no admin overheads, so all donations are spent directly on animal food, bales of hay, vet bills, farrier fees, ESB and materials to build more accommodation for animals. A constant stream of injured wildlife found by the public is cared for in the Wildlife Hospital – at present they have a young owl, a kestrel, pigeons, a crow, ferrets, rabbits, hedgehogs and fox cubs.)
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April 2012 | Liam Jones (Solo Exhibition) 2012 view
Beautiful Land and Seascapes by one of Ireland's most talented artists
“Aerach” is a word that could describe his work. There is a wonderful sense of space in these paintings, a tranquillity where nothing is hurried. He moves effortlessly from the small detail, to wide panoramas. In doing so, shows us some iconic images along the Western coastline from Donegal to Kerry, the majority of the images in this collection reflect his motto, “Within the ordinary lies the extraordinary”. These land and seascapes have a timeless quality and are beautifully illuminated by the sun peeking through moving clouds, creating dramatic sky.
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November 2011 | Winter Exhibition 2011, Paintings, Original Prints and Sculpture. view
Winter Exhibition 2011, Paintings, Original Prints and Sculpture. |
September 2011 | "Of Limestone Terraces & Olive Groves" view
New Paintings by Manus Walsh |
May 2011 | Exhibition of new oil paintings by Patrick Cahill & Rick Bentham view
Rick Bentham’s career has taken him from the exciting World of Hollywood Animation Studios USA to peaceful Co. Wicklow where he now lives and works from his studio and home. Rick is Irish/Canadian, a graduate of Film Animation, Vancouver College of Art, Canada – Class of 1977, and a Deans Honours Fine Art Program, University of Western Ontario,Canada 1971. He has worked on Stephen Spielberg’s “An American Tail” and 20th Century Fox’s “Anastasia” amongst many other films. In 1974 he received the Canada Council Grant for a series of paintings based on Canadian Indian Mythology. He is exhibiting immediate & sensitively painted studies of his family around the gardens and coastline near his studio and home. Patrick Cahill has worked as a professional artist for over 30 years. This exhibition captures Dublin during the quiet winter period, just before spring, with rainy streets; watery winter sunshine casting its long shadows; terracotta coloured buildings catching the fading evening light. He finds inspiration in the Smithfield Horse Fair, Dublin, sketching & painting the mares, foals and ponies, the working horses their weary expressions and stances and also the characters involved in the fair. |
April 2011 | Interior Reflections view
Josephine Grant is celebrating her 70th birthday with a solo exhibition in Kilcock Art Gallery. Josephine divides her time between Ireland and France, where she finds subjects which demonstrate the differing qualities of light and atmosphere. Painting in both watercolour and oils she captures with great effect natural light and strong sunlight passing through the windows of her homes, falling on polished floors and furniture, casting wonderful shadows on oriental carpets, ornate draped fabrics, detailing a cup and saucer, a pile of books and capturing a relaxed cat Finzi.. The same individual attention to light and shade is given to the terraces, gardens, flowers and landscape seen from her windows. She excels in her use of colour, tone and form, painting in intricate detail the minutia of each exact period detail.
Josephine has shown her work in nine solo exhibitions in Ireland, Washington DC and Dallas, U.S.A., France, Mexico City and England. She has also shown in group exhibitions in New Zealand, Spain, and The Netherlands. Her work in the last few years has included commissions from the Hon. Desmond Guinness, painting interiors of his home at Leixlip Castle.
Apart from painting, her interests include music, needlework, gardening, and her extended family - six sons and daughters and, to date, fifteen grandchildren including extras. She also enjoys giving parties at which she is likely to be found singing to her husband's accompaniment on the piano. |
November 2010 | "BIG VISION....small works" view
A coming together of gallery artists and invited artists, this significant exhibition of 30x30 cm (small) artworks promises to be an extremely interesting and varied display of artistic talent. The exhibition will be a vast collection of sculpture; painting; drawing; collage; ceramics; stained-glass; textile; metal-work; and enamel-work. We are certain that the variety of artistic talent and ability on display, coupled with the excellent prices, will make for a very pleasurable and satisfying experience. |
November 2010 | "BIG VISION....small works" view
A coming together of gallery artists and invited artists, this significant exhibition of 30x30 cm (small) artworks promises to be an extremely interesting and varied display of artistic talent. The exhibition will be a vast collection of sculpture; painting; drawing; collage; ceramics; stained-glass; textile; metal-work; and enamel-work. We are certain that the variety of artistic talent and ability on display, coupled with the excellent prices, will make for a very pleasurable and satisfying experience. |
October 2010 | "Memories, Dreams, Reflections".....Fergus Lyons at 60 view
All 27 paintings in the exhibition are based on the landscapes of the West of Ireland and the Characters in the Legends and Myths in Irish Mythology. Such as Sweeney at Lough Dagee, Manann Mac Lir and his Crane Bag, The Red woman and Finn and Sweeney, the mad King.
Mannan mac Lir (No.18 Manann, son of the Sea). A being of divine origin, a shape shifter and trickster and ruler of Emhain, a world beyond the sea. Emhain is a place of delight and beauty, of music and the arts, a land without grief, without sorrow, without death. Manann appears throughout all the mythology in different forms. As a blacksmith he makes a shield with the image of the ocean queen Tiabhal on it. It has great magical powers to protect. He gives a silver branch with white blossoms from Emhain to Bran and because of it's beauty Bran makes his way into that realm. (No26. “The silver bronch from Emhain”)
The Crane Bag- (No23. “The Crane Bag”) Mannan has a special bag made out of crane skin from which he draws all sorts of wonders. He is associated with the west of Ireland- Sligo,Keash, Lough Conn , where some of his hounds drowned - hence the name Lake of the Hounds. Lough Corrib was also named after Mannan- one of his names was Oirbsiu from which the word Corrib comes.
The Red woman and Finn. (No.16 “The Red Woman & Finn”)This is a fragment of a story in which Finn meets a Red Woman (A Cailleach). She is chasing a strange creature. Finn and his companions end up chasing the creature across Ireland and into the Sligo mountain of Knocknaree (No25 “Knocknaree Table”)
Another King of the West was Sweeney who was condemned by an angry monk to wander, mad and naked throughout Ireland. Near Lough Gill, in county Sligo, Sweeney fought with a Cailleach, a wise woman, and both of them in their struggle transformed into geese. Where this happened, at the eastern end ofthe Ox mountains, there is to this day a lake called Loch Dagee (No 5. Lough Dagee), Lake of the Two Geese. In this landscape of mountains and lakes you could almost encounter Sweeny, spouting his poetry and flitting from treetop to treetop, restless as a bird.
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2010 | Joseph Sloan Bronze Sculpture Musical and Conductor Series 2010 view
Joseph Sloan Bronze Sculpture Musical and Conductor Series 2010 |
July 2010 | New Oil paintings of Jaen Andalucia by Noel Lewis view
New Oil paintings of Jaen Andalucia by Noel Lewis |
June 2010 | New Screenprints by Aidan Flanaga view
Original landscape Screenprints of scenes in Ireland, created and hand-printed using water-based screenprint materials on Fabriano Artistico HP watercolour paper. The subject currently ranges from Achill, Co. Mayo; Boyne valley, Newgrange, Tara, Rathoath, Dalgan Park, Boyne River, Co. Meath; Dunamaise, Co. Laoise; Renvyle, Connemara; Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry; Glen of Imaal, Blessington, Co. Wicklow; Malahide, Co. Dublin; Prices start at 100 euros |
May 2010 | "Winter's Frozen Lipstick" view
Opening on Saturday May 22rd -- Preview Reception 3pm - 5pm . Continuing daily until June 12th "SNOW" Oil paintings by Kerry artist MICHAEL FLAHERTY
"This exhibition began last year when Michael had heavy snowfalls in Kerry - an unusual event down there. While the mountaintops - The Conor Pass on one side and the Stradbally and Brandon Mountains on his other side, are often white in winter.....to have snow down to the sea on the Dingle Peninsula has not happened since he was a child.
The snow didn't last long. He made a small number of drawings and paintings and then put them aside.
Then, the snow in January revived his interest in this theme. Luckily, the days following the snowfall were calm with brilliant sunshine, which is why the imagery has a clarity and lightness, and instead of an oppressive coldness, the subtle play of light and shadow was something that immediately suggested itself to Michael. Because the mountains and sea are so close together, the uniformity of colour made the compositions easier than usual to realize.
Michael really enjoyed working on these pictures, and it shows, especially at a time of year which is often dull, wet and windy in Kerry. To struggle to get an energy at all into what he is doing is the norm.
We feel that these wonderfully bright, energy full paintings, are exactly what we need here to activate a feeling of joy and positivity.
Michael lives on the Dingle Peninsula at the foot of the Conor Pass, between the Brandon and Stradbally Mountains. " Breda Smyth, Kilcock Art Gallery |
April 2010 | Life Drawing Workshop Sunday 11th April 2010
Life Drawing Workshop Sunday 11th April 2010
Due to unprecedented demand we are pleased to confirm that artist Michael Rowley will facilitate an extended series of one day Life Drawing Workshops at the Kilcock Art Gallery.
We are proud to announce that this will be the first such artist/gallery initiative outside Dublin and the only such venue in Kildare where students may be taught the traditional artists' skill of drawing and painting the nude model from life. All specialised equipment will be available on the day and all of the models are the best professionals available. Michael Rowley is a much sought after Life Drawing teacher where his dynamic style has been highly regarded at University College Dublin since 2004 where he initiated their Life Drawing course.
The focus of the initial workshop will be to explore the possibilities of line in drawing the human figure in a series of dramatic energetic poses of various durations. Pencil and fine line pens will be the focus of the workshop.
The fee for this 5 hour workshop is €60 per person.
For further information please contact:
- Michael Rowley on +353 (0)87 753 4986 or by email rowleymj@tcd.ie
- Breda Smyth at Kilcock Art Gallery on +353 (0)1 628 7619 or by email info@kilcockartgallery.ie
WORKSHOP DATES:
- Sunday 11th April
- Sunday 16th May
- Sunday 13th June
- Sunday 18th July
- Sunday 15th August
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April 2010 | "Renewal - New Beginnings" By Trevor Geoghegan view
Opening on Sunday April 18th - Preview Reception 3pm - 5pm and continuing daily until 8th May ”Renewal - New Beginnings" BY TREVOR GEOGHEGAN
An Exhibition of still life and landscapes - drawings, watercolours and Oils on paper and panel Trevor's new work has an exciting quality of renewal with a palette which is colourful and light.
We are delighted to bring this new exhibition by an artist who has a great following and has shown continuously with the gallery for the last 33 years. |
2010 | 2010 Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists view
2010 Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists |
Autumn 2009 | New original prints by David DuBose
New original prints by internationally renowned artist David DuBose |
November 2009 | Liam Jones 2009 view
Liam Jones is a uniquely talented artist who, for over a quarter of a century has captured on canvas the feel and the beauty of
special places in the Irish countryside. Horses in sand dunes in Ballyconneely, Connemara ponies near the 12 Bens and Dogs Bay,
rolling hills in Wicklow and misted Mountains in Kerry. Stormy sea scenes off the Achill coast and moody skies of summer near Baltimore.
“In my paintings I try to capture the expanse and majesty of the landscape. This I endeavour to do by the use of light moving across
the landscape creating space and atmosphere. In this exhibition in Kilcock I have chosen vistas from around the Country to illustrate
my vision of the landscape. If I can, even in a small way transport the viewer to the locations and experience what I experienced
on first seeing these views, then I regard my endeavours as a success.” Liam Jones |
September 2009 | Michael Gemmell 2009 view
Michael Gemmell connects with paper and paint using mind and memory. He explores the Bogs, the Burren and the Islands in most of his work . He can only give an impression and an inner glimpse of the absolute hidden ancient beauty in this kind of landscape.
Colour and texture in these paintings using simple materials, is enough to capture the scene, and so achieve a delicate balance of abstract and representational imagery through hues of colour, tone and form.
He expresses a spiritual peace in these landscape settings that are common to most of his work. |
Autumn 2009 | New Work by Patrick Cahill
Patrick Cahill has been exhibiting his work at Kilcock Art Gallery for 25 years and we are delighted to show this new collection of oil paintings of Dublin alongside his collection of life studies from Spring 2009.
Patrick is now living in Co. Kildare. He is best known for his very personal interpretations of the streets and buildings of his native city, Dublin, and most particularly his unique observations of the Horse Fair in Dublin’s Smithfield. Born 1954 in Dublin, he has been working as an artist for over thirty years.
Watercolour is Patrick Cahill's first love, he has been a member of the Watercolour Society for all of his painting life. He has won many awards with the Society in recent years. Spring ’09 showing of “Life Studies” includes 13 new male and female life studies in red chalk and watercolour.
Nowadays, he is painting in both oils and watercolour, and his subject matter covers a wide range including landscape, streetscape, still life and the human form.
His painting style could be described as "alla prima" which means "first go", and he would say that "the marks made are as important as the subject, sometimes more important". He likes the painting process to show through in the finished painting, as opposed to highly finished photographic rendering. |
July - August 2009 | Summer Exhibition of Gallery Artists 2009 view
Summer Exhibition of Gallery Artists 2009 |
May 2009 | New Work by Rick Bentham view
Rick Bentham:
From the exciting world of the animation studios in Hollywood U.S.A. to the peaceful tranquility of county Wicklow
where he now lives; this is the route that Rick Bentham has taken in his career as a professional artist.
Rick is an Irish Canadian. He graduated from Vancouver College of Art in 1977.
He has worked on films produced by the renowned Hollywood director Stephen Spielberg and on such animated films as “Anastasia” for 20th Century Fox and “An American Tail”.
Rick received the Canada Council Award for his series of paintings based on Canadian Indian Mythology.
An exhibition of his paintings was exhibited in Madison Square Gardens, New York USA in 1982.
His paintings are inspired by the Irish countryside and coastline and the myriad of work and play activities associated with Irish country life. His wife and young family appear as a constant theme in his work. These paintings are immediate and sensitively painted.
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Spring 2009 | Life Studies 2009 view
Angela Maximova specialises in life paintings, portraits, animal portraits, flowers and still life. She was born in southern Russia in 1966 and studied in Moscow College for Art. From 1991 onwards working in Industrial and Interior Design and exhibiting in Galleries such as the MARS Gallery in Moscow, In London Angela was well knows for her beautiful crafted Faberge style eggs and elegantly painted boxes with flowers, still-life and landscapes subjects. She enjoys taking commissions through the Kilcock Art Gallery.
Judith Henihan likes to suspend the human form with no background on either paper or canvas. She feel this helps to emphasize the sculptural quality and the sense of dimension, which she tries to explore.
She also specialises in portraits and has been commissioned by the OPW to paint portraits of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, C.J.O’Brien Fitzgerald and Michael Hayes. Her work is in many public and private collections.
Patrick Cahill's Spring 2009 collection of “Life Studies” includes 13 new male and female life studies. These magnificent life studies have been completed in red chalk and watercolour. |
December 2008 | Christmas Group Show 2008 view
Winter Exhibition presenting new work by a selection of the gallery's artists |
December 2008 | Manus Walsh 2008 view
Winter Exhibition (New work by Manus Walsh)
Manus Walsh 2008 - Although the Burren will feature very strongly in this exhibition, it will also include a variety of work influenced by his travels and also some lively and colourful still-life work. |
November 2008 | John Behan RHA / Mary Rohan 2008 view
Sculpture by John Behan RHA - New work in bronze by the internationally acclaimed
Irish sculptor. This exhibition not only celebrates the new work in bronze by John Behan RHA,
but also coincides with John’s 70th birthday and our 30th year in business here
in Kilcock. “We would like to wish John a very happy birthday and many more years
of success!” Breda Smyth & Carina Smyth Nov 2008
Still Life and Shoreline Paintings by Mary Rohan - "What I hope to achieve in my paintings, is focus, clarity and attention to
detail and also a sense of the transient where the ordinary becomes dreamlike." Mary Rohan 2008 |
October 2008 | Paul Guilfoyle 2008 view
“This show is a mix of memory and reality where time and the mind have stripped away the irrelevant things which can obscure landscape.
When I think back on walks in the West, some scenes are vividly stored in my memory and much is lost, discarded. What intrigues is the
effect of light. An ordinary scene is transformed and lifted to a higher level by a single shaft of sunlight. Colours burn in the light
and make the unlit parts retreat into cool and sombre tones. What I do here is to impose and develop conditions of weather and the effect
of light on mountains, rivers, trees and rock and this has made the act of painting a more rewarding and creative process.”
Paul Guilfoyle Oct. 2008 |
September 2008 | Mike Bernard 2008 view
New work by Mike Bernard - Mike Bernard's studio overlooks Clew Bay, Co. Mayo. He says..“ It is not possible to live here without being absorbed into the land and seascape. It glares at you and demands to be noticed” |
July - August 2008 | Summer Exhibition of Gallery Artists 2008 view
Summer Exhibition of Gallery Artists 2008 |
June 2008 | Dominique Van den Broeck / Fiona Smith Darragh 2008 view
New work in bronze by Fiona Smith Darragh - Fiona's inspiration comes from her love of Irish wildlife and her great interest in horses. She is exhibiting 20 cast bronzes - Irish native birds, stylised Horse and Heron, Antarctic penguins etc. Her work is represented in collections around the world.
"Reminiscences", Oil paintings by Dominique Van den Broeck - Dominique's paintings are delicate studies of children, farm animals and birds, reminiscences of her childhood near Boulogne-sur-mer in Northern France. She has exhibited in France, Denmark, and Belgium. She now lives and works from her studio in Paris. Her paintings have sold worldwide.
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May 2008 | Michael Flaherty 2008
New oil paintings by Michael Flaherty - Michael Flaherty recreates in oils the wildness and vigour of the rugged mountains and seas of his native County Kerry.
"His fearless visual mastery of the country's wilder outcrops confirms his unique and constant place among Ireland's outstanding artists."
Maura Logue. County Donegal Arts Officer |
April 2008 | "The Magic of the Familiar" - Trevor Geoghegan 2008 view
(A Continuing Exploration of the effects of light in Landscape & Still Life) An exhibition of new work by Trevor Geoghegan. “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see”
Anais Nin |
March 2008 | "An Interior View" - Josephine Grant 2008 view
"An Interior View" - New paintings by Josephine Grant |
December 2007 | Christmas Show 2007 view
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November 2007 | Carl Jones November 2007 view
New work by Carl Jones |
October 2007 | Judith Henihan October 2007 view
New work by Judith Henihan |
September 2007 | Patrick Cahill September 2007 view
New work by Patrick Cahill |
June - August 2007 | Summer Exhibition 2007 view
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May 2007 | Rick Bentham May 2007 view
New work by Rick Bentham |
March 2007 | Mike Fitzharris / Bob Quinn March 2007 view
New work by Mike Fitzharris and Bob Quinn |
February 2007 | Liam Jones February 2007 view
New work by Liam Jones |
December 2006 | Christmas Exhibition 2006 view
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November 2006 | Phoebe Cope November 2006 view
New work by Phoebe Cope |
October 2006 | Fergus Lyons October 2006 view
"Sky on Water" |
October 2006 | Fergal Flanagan October 2006 view
"Ricepaper" Paintings of Thailand & Laos by Fergal Flanagan |
September 2006 | Michael Gemmell September 2006 view
New work by Michael Gemmell |
July 2006 | Summer Select Group Exhibition 2006 view
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May 2006 | Trevor Geoghegan May 2006 view
"New Directions" by Trevor Geoghegan |
April 2006 | Michael Flaherty November 2006
New Paintings by Michael Flaherty |
March 2006 | Manus Walsh March 2006 view
New Paintings by Manus Walsh |
December 2005 | Winter Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists view
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November 2005 | Michael Rowley / Frank Hallinan Flood November 2005 view
Michael Rowley - New oil paintings in heavy impasto style of Kildare, Wicklow and Sligo. Michael is a full time artist, teaching and working from his studio in the Curragh, Co. Kildare. Frank Hallinan Flood - New landscape paintings of Ronda, Spain and Ireland. Frank has worked as a set and film designer and artist for over 20 years. Working with the Abbey Theatre and other theatrical groups including Riverdance. |
October 2005 | Josephine Grant October 2005 view
Paintings of the interiors of beautiful homes and gardens in Paris and Ireland. |
September 2005 | Anna Marie Leavy "The Miracle of Colour" Sept 2005 view
Vibrant and colourful watercolours and oils of the wild flowers and hedgerows of Ireland. |
July - August 2005 | Summer Select Group Exhibition 2005 view
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June 2005 | Patrick Cahill May/June 2005 - "Two Cities" view
"Two Cities", Dublin and Paris. The artist Patrick Cahill will be showing 50 oil paintings of these two cities. The exhibition captures the cities during winter and just before spring with rainy streets; watery sunshine casting its long shadows; terracotta coloured buildings catching the fading evening light. These paintings are his personal observations, attempting to capture the character of these beautiful cities. |
May 2005 | Group Show May 2005 - Elizabeth Cope, Phoebe Cope, Ana Duncan, Therese McAllister view
New paintings and sculpture by four female artists - Paintings by Elizabeth Cope and her daughter Phoebe; Still life by Therese McAllister; Sculpture by Ana Duncan. |
April 2005 | Eithne Ryan April 2005 view
Her works are spontaneous and lyrical compositions. She is attentive to the seasons; the weather; the feeling of the place. Many of the paintings are the result of a journey taken by the artist in the last year throughout South East Asia along with paintings of landscape and seascape around the Irish coastline. |
March 2005 | Rick Bentham (Solo Exhibition) March 2005
Oil paintings inspired by the beauty of Co Wicklow. He paints the Irish coastline and the people who engage in a myriad of work and play activities along this shoreline. His wife and children appear constantly in this work. These paintings are immediate and sensitively painted indicating an engagement with the subject matter way beyond passive observation. |
December 2004 | Gallery annual Christmas Show December 2004 view
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