Russell Gallery Hosts Exhibition Of Local Landscape And Seascape Artworks
Monday, 01 December 2008 - The Mayor of Clare has officially opened an exhibition of paintings by Joe Jordan and Doreen Drennan at the Russell Gallery in New Quay.
(I-Newswire) - ‘North Clare - the Burren Way’ will remain open to the public until 31st December.
According to Mayor Madeleine Taylor Quinn: “Both artists are based in County Clare and have been inspired by their local landscapes and seascapes. I would like to congratulate them and the Russell Gallery for presenting such impressive works to members of the public in North Clare and surrounding areas.”
Doreen Drennan is a landscape/seascape artist living in Lisdoonvarna. Her work has been selected for many private and corporate collections around the World and can be found in some of the top galleries in Ireland. Joe Jordan lives in Ennis. The watercolour artist does all his own framing and paints on location whenever possible.
Speaking during the exhibition launch on Saturday night, Mayor Taylor Quinn noted how lucky Clare artists were to have a vibrant and changing environment around them to paint and how this must influence and inspire them in their creative work.
She continued: “In Joe’s case he was first inspired to paint after seeing a Percy French west of Ireland watercolour. In some ways this reflects the importance of our landscape to us, a sense of place, and reinforces the value of traditional paintings in that they can serve as a document of a certain place at a certain time, but that they can inspire and challenge future generations to re-examine locations and attempt to capture them in a creative way also.”
“Both Joe and Doreen show the present and the past, because it is from the past that we recognise our present. This is one of the strengths of the arts, they allow us to question and query, to document and re-examine, and in many cases we don’t realise that we are doing this. It is a subtle language of beauty that appeals to us all.”
It is also a very varied language”, said the Mayor, “Joe and Doreen are both painters, living in the same county, painting along the same themes. However, their works are different. They see the same landscape or do they? Their different styles reinforce their individual approaches to their subject matter and shows how the simplest scene can be interpreted in so many different ways. It’s an invisible language that we all speak, and it is important that we all continue to develop our own language, be it in the making of art of being an audience for art.”
The Russell Gallery officially opened in New Quay in 2001 and is dedicated mainly, but not uniquely, to Fine Art. The Gallery holds regular exhibitions and displays the work of more than twenty emerging
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