Brian Ballard (illustrated above) No. 1 Clemency Reflected Oil on Canvas, 20x28in € 10,200 No. 2 Green Bottle Oil on Canvas, 10x14in € 3,600 No. 3 Lilies and Tulips Oil on Canvas, 24x18in € 8,800 No. 4 Model with Red Hair Oil on Canvas, 18x24in € 8,800

Lisa BallardLisa Ballard

(illustrated above) No. 5 Morning Branches Oil on Canvas,18x24in € 2,000 No. 6 Purple Trees Oil on Canvas,14x18in € 1,500 No. 7 Quince Oil on Canvas,24x18in € 2,000 No. 8 Trees in Snow Oil on Canvas,30x20in € 2,200

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Saturday 23rd January 2010 at 2.00pmGuest Speaker: John Concannon

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BRIAN BALLARD RUA

Born in Belfast, Brian Ballard trained firstly at the College of Art, Belfast and then at the College of Art, Liverpool. He still lives in Belfast but spends long periods of time living and working in his house on the remote and rugged island of Inishfree off the coast of Donegal.

BrianBrian Ballard enjoys painting and is constantly inspired by his response to the ordinary things, such as a vase of flowers, an old iron, a figure, a landscape, a model in his studio. He tends to work in intense bursts of creativity; surges of self-expression that often punctuate periods of restless inactivity. Once started, he may paint the same subject several times, a change of light, of weather, another vieviewpoint, a difference of scale or proportion of canvas being sufficient to prompt another exploration of the theme. The landscapes he paints are often harsh and untamed such as those off the coast of Donegal or Kerry. He paints the same scenes repeatedly in order to gain the confidence to express its many moods in paint.

Ballard is a rich colourist and is interested in the contrasting colours and textures in simple subjects. Painting directly onto the canvas with vigorous brushstrokes, he uses bold slashes of rich colour across a solid and heavily laden with fluid paint in which the bristles always leave their mark of speed and pressure, they are subject to a structural order, as well as a pictorial depth. He strives for balance in his work andand his struggle is always centred on a concern to create a subtle harmony of colour and form, a search for the ‘structure of a painting’ and a desire to entice and lead the eye where he wants it to go.

LISA BALLARD

Born 1981

Education:1999 - 2003 University of Ulster, Belfast College of Art, BA in Fine Art . 2000 Distinction in Foundation Studies at University of Ulster

Solo Exhibition:2008 Mullan Gallery, Belfast2006 Mullan Gallery, Belfast2004 Stables Gallery, Ballymoney2002 Stables Galle2002 Stables Gallery, Ballymoney

Awards:2003 Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, President's prize2006 Royal Ulster Academy, Original Vision Prize, sponsored by Robinson & Mc Ilwaine 2007 Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, Killarney Art Gallery Prize, for young artist under 35.

ó ghlúin go glúinartistic families at the kenny gallery

John Behan (illustrated above) No.9 Páisti Bronze, Unique, 19x12x11in € 5,500 No.10 Sardinian Dove Boat Bronze*, Unique, 16x20x7in € 4,500 No.11 Mayo Bull Bronze, Unique, 11x16x5in € 8,500 No.12 Wine Boat Bronze, Unique, 16x22x10in € 7,650 *with a Marini finish

Nessa Behan

No. 13 Milk Bowl I Performance Video Stills,11x16in No. 14 Milk Bowl II Performance Video Stills,11x16in(illustrated above) No. 15 Milk Bowl III Performance Video Stills,11x16in No. 16 Milk Bowl IV Performance Video Stills,11x16in

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JOHN BEHAN RHA was born in Dublin in 1938, and now living and working in Galway city where he continues to vary his style of expression, John Behan is firmly established as a sculptor of international stature.

AfterAfter an apprenticeship in metal work and welding, the foundations for Behan’s success were laid in the sixties, when he trained in London and Oslo and began to exhibit widely. But he also had a wider artistic vision, which saw him challenge the elitism of the art establishment and seek to popularise art. He was a founder member of the New Artists’ group in 1962 and Dublin’s innovative Project Art Centre in Dublin in 1967.

HeHe has been awarded many honours and became a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1990, having been an Associate of the Academy since 1973. He is also a member of Aosdána.

CelebratedCelebrated for his early bull sculptures - described by playwright Brian Friel as ‘enormously solid artefacts, 4-square on the earth, confident, assured, executed to a point of absolute completion’ - Behan’s style is still evolving and growing. In a general sense he can be credited with playing a major part in the development of sculpture in Ireland over the last forty years.

InIn June 2000 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway on the same day his large commissioned sculpture, Twin Spires, was unveiled at the college.

His major public commissions include Flight of Birds, Famine Ship, Tree of Liberty, Daedalus, Millennium Child, Arrival and Equality Emerging, unveiled in Galway city in November 2001.

TThe poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney has said of the artist: ‘There is something psychologically salubrious about John Behan. It is as if you are encountering what the Upanishads call the ancient self, something previous to an underlying individual character, some kind of psychic bedrock’.

NESSA BEHAN

The four photographs are still images from a video I worked on entitled Milk Bowl.

Photograph number one shows a clay bowl which is cast from a female breast.

AA derelict georgian house provided the starkly beautiful setting. At odds with the location is a primitive wooden table found in a shed in Galway, which my father kindly delivered to Dublin. The bowl is set into the table and filled with milk. In the video a male drinks from the bowl aswell as the female seen in the photogrphs.

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Pauline Bewick (as illustrated ) 17 Asleep in New York Acrylic on Paper 33x46in € 18,800 18 Quince, Tree in the Snow Mixed Media on Paper 33x25in € 15,000 19 Woman Awake Linocut in Black Ink, No. 16 of an edition of 40 13.5x13.5in € 1,800 20 Woman Awake Linocut in Red Ink, No.2 of an edition of 6 13.5x13.5in €1,800

Holly MeliaHolly Melia

(as illustrated ) 21 Dogs Attacking a Porcupine Watercolour on Paper 22x30in € 4,800 22 Our Cat Watercolour on Paper 19.5x22in € 3,800 23 Hibiscus Moorea Watercolour on Paper 29x23in € 4,800

Poppy Melia

24 Frog and Water Lilies Hand-Coloured Etching, Edition of 50 12.5x8in € 750 25 Duck and Ducklings Hand-Coloured Etching, Edition of 50 17x11.5in € 1,000(as illustrated )(as illustrated ) 26 Otter and Eel Hand-Coloured Etching, Edition of 50 17.5x40in € 1,800

PAULINE BEWICK RHA, AOSDÁNA

PPauline was brought up on a small farm in Co. Kerry, Ireland. Her mother Harry brought her two daughters to Ireland in the late 30's leaving Northumberland, England. Harry wrote an account of their life in Kerry called "A Wild Taste" (Methuen). After Kerry, they went to live in Wales and England and travelled from progressive school to school, living in a caravan, a houseboat, a railway carriage, a workman's hut, a gate lodge and, later in a Dublin city house.

BewiBewick has now been living back in Kerry for 28 years with her husband Patrick Melia. Their two daughters Poppy and Holly are also artists. Bewick works in many media in three large studios. She started to paint at the age of two and has continued throughout her life. "Two to Fifty" was a retrospective exhibition (1,500 works) at the Guinness Hop Store in 1985, which attracted record attendances.

HOLLY MELIA

HollyHolly was born in Dublin on the 24th of November 1970.Daughter of Pauline Bewick and Dr. Pat Melia. She studied Hot glass at the National Collage of Art and Design ,Dublin. In 1989 she took a years break to travel to the South Seas with her mother and sister. It was after that year she had her first exhibition of her South Seas work in the Rubicon Gallery Dublin and then in the Catto Gallery London.SheShe moved to Italy in 1992 where she studied Italian and worked 6 years in the famous Rampini Ceramic Studio in Radda in Chianti.

She is currently living in Chianti ,Tuscany with her Husband Luca Bellucci and their two daughters Chiara and Giada. Now that her children are attending school she has time to paint full time again.

POPPY MELIA

BoBorn in 1966, Irish artist, Poppy Melia graduated in 1989 from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Following that, Poppy spent a year painting while travelling around the Polynesian Islands, with her mother Pauline Bewick and her sister Holly Melia, also artists. Poppy’s first solo exhibitions, in the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, and the Catto Gallery, London, were both hugely successful.

PPoppy has travelled extensively, around Europe, Turkey Nepal, America, New Zealand, and China. Since early childhood she has spent many summers in Tuscany, where her family have an old farm house. While her main inspiration comes from the countryside

around her home in Kerry, each of her sojourns abroad has provided new impetus.

Poppy paints in a stylised and highly detailed manner. While her smallest pieces may take a month, the larger ones can take up to a year to complete and are very often booked before they are finished.PPoppy married Conor Mulvihill in 1995; they and their two sons live in Kerry beside the MacGillycuddy Reeks amongst mountains, lakes and sea.

She has a passion for painting wild animals and flowers .No matter where she travels to the things that interests her the most are the flora and fauna. When she paints she feels very close to her subjects even though it may be a wild animal like a dangerous porcupine or a fox.

Her subjects fills the page and more then often they don’t fit on the handmade paper she may be using.EEven though she lives in Italy she spends a lot of time in her beautiful home in Co. Kerry .Where she loves to paint the nature which surrounds her.

She has exhibited successfully in Ireland, London, Italy and has collectors also in America, Germany and Czech Rep. Her work is included in many important collections such as : Palazzo Terranova, Perugia-Italy, Charles Handy, England/Italy.

"The Yellow Man" exhibition in 1996 at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, also drew huge numbers of all ages.The artist's biography was written by Dr. James White, art historian and former Director of the National Gallery of Ireland; "Pauline Bewick, Painting a Life".

(Wolfhoud Press 1985; new edition 2001)

Margaret Irwin No.27 Discarded Fragments, Anilaun Waterfall, Cleggan Etching, No. 1 of an edition 10 48x24in € 1,350 No.28 St. Coleman's Shrine, Burren, Co. Clare Etching, No. 2 of an edition 25 27x20in € 900(illustrated above) No.29 Talismans at a Holy Well, Omey Islands Etching, No. 6 of an edition 25 30x28in € 1,300 No.30 Hope (Chapel at High Island) Etching, No. 1 of an edition 15 39x29in € 1,350 No.31 Confining Heaven (Mill Pond at High Island) Etching, No. 8 of an edition 25 22x18in € 900 No.32 Tracing the Mill Race, High Island Etching, No. 11 of an edition 25 21x26in € 900

Katharine West

(illustrated above) No.33 Tangle White Clay, 10x23x30in € 1,100 No.34 Linked Stoneware Clay, 7x24x9in € 1,450 No.35 Slabhra series, No. I White Clay, 11x26x26in € 1,800 No.36 Spin White Clay, 10x21x10in € 1,650 No.37 Loop White Clay, 9x10x10in € 1,350 No.38 Through and Through White Clay, 10x18x22in € 1,800 No.39 Steeple Chase White Clay, 26x12x12in € 1,800

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MARGARET IRWIN

Margaret was born in India of Irish parents. She studied Modern Languages at Trinity College, Dublin, before training as a printer. She studied in Dublin and with André L’Hote Paris. From 1977 to 1991 she lectured at Dun Laoghaire School of Art, Co. Dublin and at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

MarMargaret lives in Connemara, Co. Galway where she has a modern print studio and an etching press.

Solo Shows2000 Foxford Gallery, Co. Mayo2000 Sheepchandler Gallery, Roundstone, Co. Galway1994 Saabs Konstforening, Linkoping, Sweden1987 The Kenny Gallery, Galway19851985 The Grafton Gallery, Dublin

Private collections in the U.S.A., Sweden, Spain, France, England and Ireland.

“ …Also impressive are the etching of Margaret Irwin, who uses shading and depth to make physically familiar objects, such as stones, twigs or metal vessels, yield up greater resonance’s that suggest their social contexts and their multiple meanings in the lives of these landscape’s inhabitants…”

CIRCA, Summer 2000

KATHARINE WEST

KKatharine West is an artist who works primarily in clay. Her most recent body of work is called 'Playthings'. 'Playthings' combines established concerns in the work such as fluidity, interior/exterior relationships and surface tension with the resonance of objects associated with the process of play and the inherent malleability of the material itself which is clay. These objects play with space, light, form and illusion. They contain air and question the solidity of the object itself.

BioBiography

KKatharine is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, the School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg, France and Alfred University, USA. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and worked as an artist-in-residence in America, New Zealand, Hungary, Korea, Italy and most recently at the International Work Centre in Hertogenbosh, The Netherlands. Katharine West works from her studio in Co. Galway and lectures in Ceramics at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.

Thelma Mansfield No.40 Connemara Landscape Oil on Canvas, 20x30in €1,950 No.41 Early Birds at the Galway Market Oil on Canvas 12x16in € 1,250 No.42 The Fishing Expedition Oil on Canvas 16x20in € 1,400 No. 43 Undisturbed Sands, Trá Bán Oil on Canvas 18x24in € 1,500

Michael Morris

No. 44 Eyre Square Oil on Canvas, 12x16in € 550 No. 45 Shop Street Oil on Canvas, 20x16in € 850 No. 46 Skibbereen Oil on Canvas, 20x16in € 850

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THELMA MANSFIELD

TThelma Mansfield has always loved the sea shore from her early days on the beach with a net and bucket, trying to catch things and discovering all kinds of sea shells. She has had a long and happy relationship with Conamara bogs, regularly walking there with hawks and dogs. Her studio in Spiddal overlooks the little harbour and she revels in painting it in its various moodmoods, especially in the storm. Thelma enjoys watching the comings and goings of the hookers and gleoiteogs.

Thelma has been interested in art since her very young days. Her extraordinary talent was recognised early on when she was given the highest accolade in the Texaco Childrens Art Competition. On three occasions she won the top award in the Glen Abbey Art Competition, which was judged by the late James White.

SheShe went to work in RTÉ while still in her teens, but she always kept up with her drawing and painting. When she retired from broadcasting in the late nineties, Thelma was free to devote all of her time to art.

MICHAEL MORRIS

Michael is largely self taught, and his travels have helped in honing a style that, while difficult to pin down, is nevertheless individual and immediately recognisable.

"I"I started in art college but left almost immediately - my year in college put me off art completely" says Morris. "But I took some time out and came back more mature, and more carefree, with a clearer perspective on what I wanted to do."

MoMorris' travels took him from France to Catalonia, and while Dublin is his main subject matter, his works seem to be suffused with both French sensibility and Mediterranean light.

"When I relaxed, I became much better as an artist," hehe says. "My style is not a deliberate choice. What I had been painting previously morphed into what you see today, and I let the style come about by itself. I have always done my own thing and try not to be influenced, and it is possible that those who have influenced me are not my favourite artists. For example, I love Bacon, but my works look nothing like Bacon.Bacon. In fact, the biggest influence that I have seems to have come from Barcelona's graffiti artists."

If there is a touch of the Guerilla to Morris' paintings, it only adds to the sense of vibrancy that he manages to bring to the traditionally grey Dublin City. His painting is as reminiscent of mosaic as it is of the masters of the late 19th and early 20th Century, including the impressionists and post-impressionists; but it is nonetheless recognisably Dublin.

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Kenneth Webb No.47 Path to Studio Oil on Canvas,36x24in € 44,000No.48 Rock Pool, Roundstone Oil on Canvas, 30x20in € 25,000No.49 Wash Day Oil on Canvas, 12x16in € 9,500No.50 In Full Bloom Oil on Canvas, 10x14in € 9,000No.51No.51 Stone Walls, Mountain Farm Oil on Canvas, 10x14in € 9,000No.52 Poppy with Butterfly Oil on Canvas, 10x14in € 9,000

Susan Webb No.53 Storming up a Hill Oil on Canvas, 30x40in € 12,000No.54 Spanish Arch and Long Walk Oil on Canvas, 16x40in € 5,000No.55 Reluctant, Dublin Horse Show Oil on Canvas, 12x16in € 950No.56No.56 Leader of the Pack Oil on Canvas, 12x10in € 850

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KENNETH WEBB

"Whenever I am 'taken over' by a theme, I seem to have to start all over again and invent my own pictorial structure". KKenneth Webb has been 'taken over' by many different themes during his long career - The Forest of Dean, County Down harbours and farmhouses, seaweed, poppies, waterlilies, thorn trees, the turf bog near his studio at Ballinaboy in the west of Ireland.

Kenneth Webb was born in London and grew up in Gloucester on the Welsh Border. HeHe lectured in the Belfast College of Art for some years before moving to Ballywater in County Down, where he founded the Irish School of Landscape Painting. He was head of Painting School Ulster College of Art from 1953-1960.

InIn 1974 he bought a remote derelict cottage near Clifden in Connemara. He converted it into a studio, and began to explore the surrounding terrain, a wild and primitive bogscape. It is this area which has become the inspiration for all his recent work. It is imbued with a certain spirit which he finds totally entrancing.

TThe range of his interests has narrowed, so that his work had become increasingly focused on Connemara, to a small section of the bog in Ballinaboy.

Kenneth Webb is one of the most important artists working in Ireland today.

SUSAN WEBB

Susan Webb was born in Newtownards, County Down in 1962. Along with her brothers and sister she has painted since childhood. Susan exhibited with a group of Irish artists in the Mall Galleries, London, 1978.

HerHer work was taken up by the Tryon Gallery, Cork Street, London in 1987 and she has exhibited there regularly since.

She held her first exhibition in Kennys at the age of eighteen, and has regular solo exhibitions there and in Dublin.

SusanSusan combines her love of animals, most especially horses and dogs, with a great appreciation of the Irish landscape, giving a unique view of Irish equestrian life.

She is involved with the Equestrian Society of Artists, and has shown with the Oireachtas, The Society of Women Artists and had her work taken on an Arts Council sponsored tour of America.

TToday, Susan spends much of her time travelling around Ireland teaching, and demonstrating painting techniques in oils, watercolours, pastels and acrylics. She does a lot of commissioned animal portraits for owners and trainers such as Michael Smurfit and Dermot Weld, and for private people.

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