AN exhibition of limited edition prints by a number of long established printmakers will be officially unveiled by newly elected Ireland South MEP Liadh Ní Riada at the Frank Lewis Gallery in Killarney on Tuesday evening.
The exhibition will feature the work of Siobhan Hyde, Louise Leonard, Pamela Leonard, Dermot McCarthy, Niall Naessens and Ciaran Tuite and it will run until June 27.
The opening will also include music by master uileann piper David Hegarty.
The artists use the demanding techniques of etching, screenprint, collograph, linocut and gold leaf to depict their imagery of landscape, nature and mind.
Pamela Leonard’s etching shows the power of the sea and an ominous sky, the ravaged strand and nervous horses with memories of February 2012 that will not be forgotten. Her works reflect a 50-year skill as a landscape artist which included designing 16 stamps for An Post.
Siobhan Hyde’s work featuring daisies shows the vitality and freshness of one of the great marvels of nature along roadsides. Placed in a red vase, it gives the screenprint great richness.
Creations of the mind that are not related to images of everyday life as we know them might describe Dermot McCarthy’s pictures. Starting with an idea but unclear where it is going, different elements gradually appear with a theme emerging from journeys into and out of the subconscious.
The magic of living in Brandon is evoked in the work of Niall Naessens while Louise Leonard’s art emphasises how big a bird the swan is.
Ciaran Tuite’s figurative studies, meanwhile. might be showing extra-terrestrial creatures or x-ray images but his works portray real human emotions.
