An abandoned holding. A single dwelling. A community dwindling. Rooted in the west of Ireland these semi-realistic depictions of landscapes featuring the traces of past people are captured with delicacy and calmness, sympathetic to the subject of once lively homesteads, now fading into history.

Eithna Joyce

Oil and ink on canvas undated work by Eithna Joyce (b. 1955). Eithna Joyce works in a variety of media including oil, ink and collage. Solo exhibitions include Iontas, Castleblaney; Ballina Arts Centre; Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery and N.U.H.G. Galway.

 

33cm × 28cm