Original artwork description:

As I was making this painting, the last line from the first stanza of Dylan Thomas’s wonderful ‘Fern Hill’ was on my mind:


'Down the rivers of the windfall light.”

This line evokes an image of a river of light flooding the land to banish darkness and its lingering mist for another day.

The result is a memory painting with a view from the Hill of Tara in the Irish midlands when light is on the cusp of spreading across the land.

This 19.6″ x 19.6 X 1.2″ oil on panel is ready to hang.

The edges, painted white, so framing is not required.

All my paintings are varnished to add a protective coat against dust.

Only the highest quality archival fine art grade oil paints are used on the surface gessoed and prepared by myself.

Packing: all work is packed professionally using protective compressed foam boards 2 cm deep so that your painting arrives safely.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my work.

A statement on why I make Art.
How can I make tangible on a paint surface a world that is full of magic and poetry? My finished pieces do not mirror a subject matter but are a representation of emotions felt in a specific time or place. Often the fleeting effect of a particular light and colour in nature are held somewhere in my visual memory. At some point, this takes centre stage on the painting I am working on. It may appear during the process of creation without an obvious connection to the subject matter at hand and yet, it adds another dimension, a particular atmosphere. These processes are ways and means by which I express my connection to nature in all its richness and variety. I moved from Ireland to France to create a new body of work with the regular discipline of painting small oil studies on panel. These inform larger landscapes, still lifes and abstract works. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art (BFA). My work is in collections in France, the USA, Great Britain and Ireland.

Education.

Fine Art Degree in Painting.

1987-1989 Foundation Art course - Birmingham Polytechnic- Distinction

1989 - 1992 Cheltenham College of Art.- 2:1 with first in Art History with commendation

Materials used:

Oil paint

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#green #light #sun #sunrise #morning #golden #ireland #dawn #mist #green fields 
Dawn Across the Fields (2017)
Oil painting
by John O'Grady

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As I was making this painting, the last line from the first stanza of Dylan Thomas’s wonderful ‘Fern Hill’ was on my mind:


'Down the rivers of the windfall light.”

This line evokes an image of a river of light flooding the land to banish darkness and its lingering mist for another day.

The result is a memory painting with a view from the Hill of Tara in the Irish midlands when light is on the cusp of spreading across the land.

This 19.6″ x 19.6 X 1.2″ oil on panel is ready to hang.

The edges, painted white, so framing is not required.

All my paintings are varnished to add a protective coat against dust.

Only the highest quality archival fine art grade oil paints are used on the surface gessoed and prepared by myself.

Packing: all work is packed professionally using protective compressed foam boards 2 cm deep so that your painting arrives safely.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my work.

A statement on why I make Art.
How can I make tangible on a paint surface a world that is full of magic and poetry? My finished pieces do not mirror a subject matter but are a representation of emotions felt in a specific time or place. Often the fleeting effect of a particular light and colour in nature are held somewhere in my visual memory. At some point, this takes centre stage on the painting I am working on. It may appear during the process of creation without an obvious connection to the subject matter at hand and yet, it adds another dimension, a particular atmosphere. These processes are ways and means by which I express my connection to nature in all its richness and variety. I moved from Ireland to France to create a new body of work with the regular discipline of painting small oil studies on panel. These inform larger landscapes, still lifes and abstract works. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art (BFA). My work is in collections in France, the USA, Great Britain and Ireland.

Education.

Fine Art Degree in Painting.

1987-1989 Foundation Art course - Birmingham Polytechnic- Distinction

1989 - 1992 Cheltenham College of Art.- 2:1 with first in Art History with commendation

Materials used:

Oil paint

Tags:
#green #light #sun #sunrise #morning #golden #ireland #dawn #mist #green fields 

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Wandering through the landscape we're touched by its mood and light, we live in it, and it lives in us. This magical union is where my paintings are born. How... Read more

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