by John | 18 Feb 2018 | Land
Murmur in the Trees V, ©John O’Grady 10″ x 14″ x 0.75″, oil on canvas, ready to hang. $397 (approx £283, €320) with free shipping The title of the painting is named after Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘A Murmur in the Trees – To Note’ and is the...
by John | 14 Feb 2018 | Land
Lovers of the Lake , © John O’Grady 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″, oil on canvas, ready to hang. $397 (approx. €325, £285) with free shipping. ‘Lovers of the Lake’ is the title of a short story by Seán Ó Faoláin. It deals with the conflicts of the spiritual and the...
by John | 14 Jan 2018 | Land
Dawn Across the Fields, ©John O’Grady 19.6″ x 19.6″ x 1.25″, oil on deep edge panel, ready to hang. $1014 (approx £739, €831) with free shipping. As I was making this painting, the last line from the first stanza of Dylan Thomas’s wonderful ‘Fern...
by John | 7 Jan 2018 | Land, Sea, Sky
In 2017, I created over 40 paintings. It was interesting, like last year, to look back and see how the work has changed throughout the year. The colours are more understated. Lead, copper, bronze and gold have arrived on my palette as you’ll see in the seven...
by John | 29 Oct 2017 | Land
Winter in Wicklow ©John O’Grady 5″ x 7″ x 2″, oil on deep edge panel, ready to hang. SOLD I’ve made a few paintings of the bogland high in the Wicklow mountains. Nearly all convey a hushed moment to commune with nature. Up there, you can hear the wind...
by John | 22 Oct 2017 | Land
The Flight II, ©John O’Grady 14.25″ x 18″ x 0.75″, oil on canvas, ready to hang. $685 with free shipping. Last week the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins was in Tasmania where he unveiled a memorial to Irish women convicts transported there 170 years ago. The...
