GALLERIES

Dublin

TRAMYARD GALLERY

New York

AGORA GALLERY

Chicago

MILL POND GALLERY

Studio

WICKLOW IRELAND

CILL RIALAIG

an artists retreat in Kerry

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"Like Bill Jensen and Gregory Amenoff, Patrick Walshe imparts a visionary quality to landscape. However Walshe delineates the lie of the land more faithfully than his American counterparts, even while imbuing his views of the Irish countryside with a misty metaphysical dimension. In paintings such as "Scenes from the City: Glendassan" and "Scenes from the City: The Lake," Walshe approaches Turner for his near mystical evocation of majestic landscapes through vigorous painterly means." ...

Marie R. Pagano . New York June 2007

In the Gardens of

Marrakech

It is my good fortune to find myself surrounded by the most inspiring of landscapes, countryside and skies which have freed me from the obligation I used to feel, to echo / reference, the trends of contemporary urban art. In hindsight, I spent ten years in the U.S.A. chasing my tail in pursuit of the zeitgeist, firstly in New York and latterly L.A.. I was far too concerned and influenced by what other people were creating. Now I go walking here in Wicklow or in the beautifully different West of Ireland in order to connect with the spiritual wonder that compels my craft . There is an irony in finding, what I had searched so long for, right outside my door and using the humble and often derided language of "Landscape Painting" achieving a clarity of thinking that I had glimpsed as a child, but which had eluded me for many years.Realising the magnificence of the natural world , compels me to develop art that celebrates the pristine, as man's "conquer and harness" ethos becomes more obviously bankrupt. I beleive in the importance of using our natural surroundings as a core theme when so much of what is considered cutting edge modern art seems to refer solely to the urban experience.

Work in Progress and Current Adventures

2008

Up the Glen

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email: art@patrick-walshe.com