OCAP(Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme ) is honoured to remember renowned landscape artist Kieran Tobin in LOCKDOWN LANDSCAPES.
The members were deeply shocked and saddened to hear of Kieran’s sudden passing in March of this year. Kieran’s family have kindly agreed to go ahead with this exhibition in Kieran’s memory. Organisers hope to pay tribute and celebrate Kieran’s legacy as an artist and his generosity of spirit.
After twenty-three years as a prominent ENT specialist, Kieran announced his retirement from medicine and turned his attention to seriously focusing on being an artist.
He had a lifelong interest in art, especially the work of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American artists. He started out with watercolours, then moved onto pastels and later to oil painting.
Being a County Tipperary man originally, and used to the profusion of trees, hedges and green fields, the Connemara landscape was stark to him at first.
His curious eye soon found the beauty in the bogs, mountains and rocks surrounding him, and the peace and tranquillity he found there is strongly reflected in his art.
“Paintings may bring us back in our minds to special places or trigger memories of private moments. I would wish viewers of my work to enter the scene and derive a sense of peace and appreciation of the beauty of nature and the countryside. I hope my paintings bring a stress-free zone into the homes and lives of busy people.”
Quote from an interview with Kieran Tobin in Tea ‘n Turps Taking Tea with Artists by Lynda Cookson.
LOCKDOWN LANDSCAPES opens tomorrow Friday July 29 from 7-9pm and will continue to Sunday 7th August. The exhibition will be open to the public 10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday and 12-5pm on Sundays. All are welcome.
