View from the Green Room: SEA artists bring colour and imagination
SEA Art Group Exhibition.
South East Art Group returned to the Protestant Hall at Church Road, Tramore, for their annual exhibition.
The Protestant Hall is the friendliest of venues with exhibiting artists only too happy to discuss and share their work. The walls are covered with pictures, ceramics, drawings, slate and brass work with paintings and photographs from three guests that all make up for an interesting visit.
George Goulding works in graphite and his ‘Old Man of the Sea’ is enigmatic. Ann Greenan’s colours in ‘Rhapsody in Red’ and ‘Feet of a Dancer’ dazzle. Lilian O’Sullivan catches the shifting colours and light in sea and landscapes in ‘Looking across the Bay’ and ‘Rock Pools Lady’s Slip’, while Mary Sloan’s ‘Australian Colours’ and ‘Blue Poppy’ are rich and interesting.
Alexander Kostic’s ‘Brownstown Heads’ are still and identifiable, while Michael Molloy’s ‘Geese’ are in restive mood.
I loved Yvonne Kidd’s three pictures of colourful boat floats and Ann Fripps’ ‘Sunset from the Prom’ is just that.
Jill Hincks ‘After the Storm’ is dark and menacing, as is Jimmy O’Brien-Moran’s ‘Raven’. David Smyth’s ‘Coastal Landscape, Kerry’ is benign and comforting and Deirdre O’Sullivan’s ‘Irish Weather’ is a funscape of brollies.
Tara Fennell’s humour jumps out in three explosive bursts of colour in ‘Blooming Flowers’ and John Gallagher’s ‘Swan’ is an inflight joy.
Patrick Buck’s Art Deco paintings fascinate. Everything is here. Glamour, elegance, symmetry in bold, vivid colours of women-bathers that would intimidate traffic wardens.
A delightful exhibition that is rich in variety and talent from an art group that grows in numbers and strength every year.
