The Mountain Road II #249

The Mountain Road II, ©John O’Grady 2015 Oil on canvas 7″ x 9″ x 0.75″. SOLD A small road weaves its way through the mountains in Ireland. This painting is about scale and how the road is dwarfed by its surroundings. It’s also about what we might see when we...

I Dreamt of White Horses II #248

I Dreamt of White Horses II, ©John O’Grady 2015 Oil on canvas 10″ x 10″ x 0.75″. SOLD The south-westerly wind is blowing hard off the coast, moving clouds over water and land in quick succession and as they do, they change colour. Catching the light in the process,...

Cloudscape over Howth #213

Cloudscape over Howth, ©John O’Grady 2014 Oil on deep edged beech panel, 15 cm x 15 cm x 3.6 cm deep (approx. 6″x6″x1.5″) Sold Most of the time I paint on a slim, relatively smooth panel without give. It suits the way I work. These past few days,...

Glendalough Reflections #207

Glendalough Reflections, ©2014 John O’Grady, 16″x 16″, oil on Panel SOLD Back in October 2012, I made a small painting of the lower lake of Glendalough, from the Irish Gleann Dá Loch “Valley of the Two Lakes” in county Wicklow. Today’s painting is a second...

The Windswept Field #202

The Windswept Field,  ©John O’Grady, 2014 Oil on Panel, 6″ x 6″ SOLD One of my favourite places to visit is the plateau of Clansayes in Drôme Provençale. In between the garrigue, the shrubland composed of a mix of kermes oaks, box tree and aromatic plants such as...