New paintings by Vivienne St-Clair...

These four beautiful pieces by Vivienne St-Clair arrived to the Killarney Art Gallery recently...

"Pink and Yellow" 8"x6" 775 euros

"Killarney Field" 6"x13"  875 euros

"Pomegranate" 4"x4" 325 euros

"Morning Study" 6"x6" 595 euros

Program of Solo Exhibitions for the Summer

Starting next month, Irishartcollector.com - Valentia Island and the Killarney Art Gallery will present yet an other season of solo exhibitions. Each exhibition will be shown for a few days on Valentia before moving to the Killarney Art Gallery for an other week. This summer's program is equally promising and provides an other great excuse to visit this fantastic part of the country. 

The Dates are as follow:

Róisín O'Farrell  

Valentia: June 24th- 27th           Killarney: June 28th-July 4th

Amélie Gagné                           

Valentia: July 1st-4th                  Killarney: July 5th-11th

Dave West                                

Valentia: July 8th-11th                Killarney: July 12th-18th

Liam O'Neill                             

Valentia: July 15th-18th              Killarney: July 19th-25th

Roy Lyndsay                            

Valentia: July 22nd-25th        Killarney: July 26th- Aug.1st

Jimmy Lawlor                      

Valentia:July 29th-August 1st   Killarney: August 2nd-8th

Paul Kelly                                
Valentia: August 5th-8th            Killarney: August 9th-15th

Owen Rohu                           
Valentia: August 12th-15th       Killarney: August 16th-22nd

James May                           
Valentia: August 19th-22nd      Killarney: August 23rd-29th

June Brilly                              
Valentia: August 26th-29th   Killarney: Aug.30th-Sept. 5th

John Morris                          
Valentia: September 2nd-5th    Killarney: Sept. 6th-12th

John Lawrence                   

Valentia: September 9th-12th    Killarney: Sept. 13th-19th

For more information please visit our website (which should be up very shortly!) And you can always keep in touch on our Fan Pages with Facebook, just follow the links on the right side of the blog.

We do hope to see many of you in either of the galleries...!

Sculptor Patrick Barry joins the artists of the Killarney Art Gallery

We are delighted to welcome to the gallery the incredibly talented young sculptor from Cork: Patrick Barry.

Using mainly but not exclusively Kilkenny Limestone, Patrick is equally comfortable with the abstract and the figurative. We recently received 3 pieces of his exquisite work, and here is one of them...

"The Sea Inside" - Kilkenny Limestone

"Patrick Barry was awarded the prestigious Douglas Hyde Gold Medal, Oct 2008, for his work as part of the Oireachtas festival. The award winning sculpture entitled ‘Tonn an Mhean Oiche’ (Midnight Wave) was based on sculpture mirroring the ocean as a conduit for energy. Judges for the competition included the renowned sculpture Imogen Stuart (Carved the Altar at BUCK, Cork& John Paul II in NUI, Maynooth) and also Maria Simmons-Gooding who has been identified as one of Irelands foremost painters and printmakers to have emerged since the 1960’s.

To date Patrick has been awarded numerous public and private commissions some of which include Flora fountain, a water feature based on wild flowers along the Blackwater River for Blackwater Motors, Fermoy, Circle of Friends a department of education commission for St. Marys National School, Carrigaline and Two Sides to Youth for Limerick County Council. Recently his public commissions include a figurative stone carving commission for Waterford County Council, entitled – The Daily Balance – a Kilkenny limestone carving representing the previous days of the co-op where a shopping plaza now stands in Dungarvan. He has also recently completed commissions for Enable Ireland Tralee, a commemorative seat for oysterhaven beach Kinsale, Co Cork."