Lockdown Landscapes – celebrating unique legacy
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From this week's Galway City Tribune
Lockdown Landscapes, the fourth and final exhibition being presented by the Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme for its summer 2022 season, features work from the late medic and artist Kieran Tobin.
Kieran, who had been invited to show his work at the Oughterard Courthouse Gallery for this season, died suddenly earlier this year.
“We were deeply shocked and saddened to hear of Kieran’s sudden passing on March 28,” says Maureen Mooney of OCAP.
“Kieran’s family have kindly agreed to go ahead with this exhibition in his memory. We hope to pay tribute and celebrate Kieran’s legacy as an artist and his generosity of spirit.”
Kieran Tobin had a lifelong interest in visual art, especially the work of 18th- and 19th-century American artists.
In 2001, he announced his retirement from medicine, aged 59, after 23 years as an ENT specialist in University Hospital Galway. Having been a keen amateur painter for most of his life, he wanted to fully focus on creating art.
Kieran started out with watercolours, then moved onto pastels and later to oil painting.
Originally from Tipperary, he had grown up surrounded by trees, hedges and lush countryside, and he found the Connemara landscape stark when he first moved West.
However, it wasn’t long before he saw the beauty of its bogs, mountains and rocks, and the peace and tranquillity he discovered in Galway is reflected in his art.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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