May 2014 RHA Summer Show

Artist Seán Healy and Askeaton Cotemporary Art's Michele Horrigan view Cáit's Tale - Moonlight in Monilea in the RHA Summer Show
Artist Seán Healy and Askeaton Cotemporary Art’s Michele Horrigan view Cáit’s Tale – Moonlight in Monilea in the RHA Summer Show

There was a great attendance over two open nights for the show, thousands have already seen it. Delighted to be in such good company, and a prime hanging space.

I bade adieu to Dublin’s Fair City with a heavy heart.

 

 

 

 

 

Cáit's Tale - Moonlight in Monilea Cáit’s Tale – Moonlight in Monilea

This chapter, a 3 x3 ft (90 x 90 cm) oil painting will be displayed as part of the RHA Summer show in Dublin, commencing May 27th, public Opening May 26th. She’s pictured here all ready to depart in Normoyle & Frawley’s Gallery and Framing, who did a great job as usual. My thanks to Gary Coyle for facilitating my participation in this prestigious event. My thanks also to my Artist friend Seán Healy (in advance) for his hosting and critical skills.

Continuing on the theme of Cats’ Tales (see Cats’ Tales Page and March 2013 post), this painting imagines Cáit wandering around Monilea by Moonlight. Monilea, a rural area in Co. Westmeath is where I spent many of my teenage years, and was the subject of many Landscapes I painted. It seemed apt to combine the two subjects, both lost times, existing in a half-remembered, dream-like area of my consciousness.