Absent Swans, Coole Park
Greetings from County Limerick, where I create drawings and paintings to celebrate the beauty, culture and history of Ireland and her people.
Coole Park is located at the edge of the Burren, so this lake disappears in very dry weather, adding to the general mystery of the area. I painted what I saw, the gleaming light from the white sky on the water, seen through the trees, with some muted light causing a soft glow on the decaying leaves of the forest floor. This painting is for writers, readers, poets, history buffs, and geologists, given the lakes location at the edge of Ireland's arguably most famous geographical area, the Burren.
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2024, Acrylic on 3-D canvas, 25x35 cm (9.8x13.8 inches)
Coole Park is located at the edge of the Burren, so this lake disappears in very dry weather, adding to the general mystery of the area. I painted what I saw, the gleaming light from the white sky on the water, seen through the trees, with some muted light causing a soft glow on the decaying leaves of the forest floor.
It wasn’t until after I went to Coole Park for the second time that I revisited William Butler Yeats’ famous poem about the wild swans that swam on this lake. The poem is supposed to be a lament, as he didn’t marry his first love Maude Gonne (she married someone else), but given that the poem was written between 1916 and 1917, I can’t help but wonder if it might not also be a lament for the executed fighters of the 1916 Rising, or possibly for the young men who perished in what was then known as the Great War, or First World War : “Their hearts have not grown old”.
This painting is for writers, readers, those who love literature and who study history, who enjoy walking where great minds walked a hundred years ago, when the state was new and there was sense that anything was possible. Or for those who love and appreciate writers, readers, literature, history, walking and looking for ghosts!
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Orla Clancy Contemporary Art sells artworks made by Irish artist Orla Clancy. Works sold include original drawing and paintings, works on paper and fine art prints on paper.
Orla's considerable body of work includes vibrant landscapes of places she has been to and loved, as well as read about, and works derived from sketches and photos of often random people, which she refers to as 'peoplescapes'. These are not portaits, more snapshots of moments in time which capture a social or relationship dynamic, in which the figures are often turned away from the viewer, or depicted with indistinct facial features, thus allowing the viewer to subconsciously project his or her own story into the painting, and so a narrative is created.
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