by John | 10 Apr 2016 | Sky
Evening, Sally Gap ©John O’Grady 8″ x 8″ X 0.75″ oil on canvas, ready to hang. Not For Sale (NFS) This piece is a smaller sibling to the previous post but half an hour later so the light is only catching the top of the cloud. I was working on both paintings in tandem...
by John | 17 May 2015 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland
Peak-Time, ©John O’Grady 2015 Oil on deep edged canvas, 16″ x 16″ x 1.75″, ready to hang Leonardo da Vinci once described clouds as “bodies without surface”. Cumulus clouds have a nebulous quality and yet at the same time, they are Sculptural, they move...
by John | 1 Feb 2015 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland
You Can Touch the Sky, ©John O’Grady 2015 Oil on Panel, 8″ x 10″ A road crosses high over the top of the stark and beautiful lunar landscape of the Burren on the West coast of Ireland. I was on this road one time and the weather had moved in off the Atlantic. The rain...
by John | 6 Dec 2014 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland
Click on the image to see more detail. Moonrise over the Field, ©John O’Grady 2014 Oil on deep edged panel, 15cm x 15cm x 3.2cm (approx 6″x 6″ x 1.1/4″, no need to frame and ready to hang) NFS The moon is rising slowly into the sky and the mist forming on the hills is...
by John | 4 Jun 2014 | Landscape Paintings - Ireland
Evening across the Bog II, ©John O’Grady, 2014 Oil on Panel, 8″ x 10″ SOLD I have mentioned before how I find evening to be a special time. The light has a particular quality which imbues the landscape with a glow, perhaps it is the raking light...
