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Art to me, is seeing. I think you have got to use your eyes, as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work. That's my art. Andrew Wyeth
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one. John Ruskin
The Presence of Absence
I am moved by a sense of the 'presence of absence', the suspension in unbreathed time of reveries of unforgetting, lost presences, and the melancholy of traces. I work primarily in acrylic and in egg tempera, although recently I have been exploring oils (see Dreadlocks above and Liminal). My inspiration in recent years comes from twentieth-century American realism, especially the somewhat disturbing and isolated moods of Andrew Wyeth. There are similar resonances in western Ireland's remote Atlantic landscapes. After a career in flying, my art studies have consisted of extended workshops in the United States with Koo Schadler (egg tempera), Joe McGurl and Don Demers (en plein air), and Stan Miller (watercolour and egg tempera), and in Ireland with Carey Clarke, past president of the RHA (oils).
I have exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy's annual exhibition in Dublin, with works in egg tempera (Buttermilk) and in acrylic (Extra Room andTerminus). Two recent paintings, Dreadlocks and Lightkeeper, will be on display at the RHA's 2012 annual exhibition (see events below). Sudden Breeze was featured in International Artist magazine's Feb/Mar 2009 edition (65) world landscape competition, and an 8-page article on my landscape paintings featured in the IA June/July 2012 issue, number 85.
My website is www.FergusARyan.com
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