Irish art

An Irish Cottage 11x14" watercolor on paper An Irish Cottage zoom A white stone cottage set against dark rolling hills. Sheep mowing down the lawn and resting in the tall slanted grass. I think there might be rain in the forecast. The family who lives here isn't too worried about rain, though. In fact, they've come to really love storms. The boy and the girl sit and watch the clouds roll over the dark hills through their bedroom windows until the shadow covers the little cottage. The baby…

About 5 years ago I painted this 20 by 16 oil, I am quite happy with this painting, I thought the dog and the rock came out quite well.

Blarney Woollen Mills tells the tale of the classic Irish legend - the Children of Lir. The story is rich in Irish folklore, myths and magic.

Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) was orphaned, yet through determination and ability rose to become one of Britain's foremost portrait artists. Despite his busy career, Lavery found time to paint numerous portraits of his favorite subject, Hazel (1886-1935), his second wife. Biographical information on the Laverys can be found via the links above. I'm likely to devote an entire post to Lavery some day, so won't say much more here other than that even though he is best known as a portrait painter…

A presentation of 24 original pieces by the artist - Padraig McCaul

March is here. To kick start the month I’m delighted to introduce you to the quirky and entertaining artwork created by Olyart in County Galway,

Stone Age Mother Goddess Holding Crescent Moon (top) Venus of Willendorf (below) Earliest known images of the divine are of the Mother, not as the anorexic Barbie, but as the buxom birther of All. Originally, male scholars thought these ancient images were meant as a sort of primitive pornography, or perhaps a joke. More recently, feminine scholars, such as the great archeologist, Marie Gimbutus ('Language of the Goddess') discovered that these images were used in sacred sites and can be…

Irish Landscapes Art | KarenPleass

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In Irish mythology, Danu ([ˈdanu]; modern Irish Dana [ˈd̪ˠanˠə]) is a hypothetical mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann (Old Irish: "the peoples of the goddess Danu"). Though primarily seen as an ancestral figure, some Victorian sources also associate her with the land. The hypothetical nominative form of the name, *Danu, is not found in any medieval Irish text, but is rather a reconstruction by modern scholars based on the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand), which is the only…