Brian Fallon travels to Roscommon where he enjoys the landscapes of artist Malachy Costello
Since the death of Seán McSweeney, in particular, the Irish landscape has seemed rather lacking in real and valid personalities, although not in capable painters. Perhaps it is something inherent in what we roughly call the Spirit of the Age. Landscape pictures are still being painted, as we all know, and sometimes very competently, but few of them show that absolute absorption in the subject which alone can turn some outwardly commonplace setting into a tangible, living substance.
Aoife Ruane looks at artist Niamh McGuinne’s work, on show at the Highlanes Gallery
Pascal Ungerer’s peripheral landscapes evoke a sense of silence and isolation , writes Margarita Cappock
On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Michael Waldron assesses the work of Cork artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis
