Bog with Passing Cloud #151

by | 28 Aug 2013 | Land

Bog with Passing Cloud, ©John O’Grady, 2013 6″x 6″, oil on Panel In Seamus Heaney’s poem “Bogland” his first verse is: ‘We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening – Everywhere the eye concedes to Encroaching horizon ,’ Maybe...

Take me to the Island #142

by | 25 Jul 2013 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland

Take me to the Island, ©John O’Grady, 2013 Oil on Panel, 6″x 6″ I used a subdued palette of muted greens and red browns to evoke calm and stillness when you look across the lake on a warm evening as the last light fades on water....

The Gorse Bush II, Ireland #119

by | 1 May 2013 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland

The Gorse Bush II, Ireland, ©John O’Grady, 2013 7″x5″, oil on panel SOLD ‘When gorse is in flower, kissing is in fashion’ – so goes the old saying. The two species of gorse found in Ireland flower at different times, one in spring,...

Evening Shadows #110

by | 3 Apr 2013 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland

Evening Shadows, © John O’Grady, 2013 Oil on Panel, 6″x 6″ SOLD This painting is really a continuation of  the previous painting #109, now exploring the colours of evening’s warmer dappled light as opposed to morning’s cooler...