Stories of Home

An exhibition of oil paintings and limited edition enhanced prints by

Irish artist Padraig McCaul

 

The White Gallery@Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle

ph: +61 401 333 309

 

July 13th to 19th

 

Kidogo Arthouse presents 'Stories of Home', an exhibition of original oil paintings and hand finished enhnaced limited edition prints by Irish artist Padraig McCaul. This will be McCaul's first time exhibiting in Australia.

Home for Padraig McCaul is Achill Island, located off Ireland’s western seaboard. A place which has had a profound influence on his paintings, which are inspired by the natural beauty and colour of the surrounding landscape. Home is also that special place that he shares on Achill with his wife Anne and their three children, under the shade of Slievemore mountain, minutes from Silver Strand beach and the Atlantic ocean.

 

This collection of paintings and enhanced limited edition prints are drawn from this place called Home and include images of family life on the island, old farm houses, roads and country lanes in simple, uncluttered, coloured filled compositions. Since moving to Achill McCaul's evocotive paintings of the west of Ireland have continued to evolve and now include more figurative work, sometimes based on, but always inspired by his own family.

 

'My figures are inspired, in part, by the drawings my own children make. The simplicity and minimalism of a 4 year old's way of drawing seems to work well with my landscapes! I like to think that I am using their visual language to represent them in my paintings'.

 

The other major influence on his figurative paintings has been Australian artist Sidney Nolan, an artist that has captured the uniqueness of the Australian landscape in his paintings of Australian legends, in particular the Ned Kelly series which was on display in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

 

www.padraigmccaul.com

Blog

This is a blog post I wrote back in 2014 about the first workshop I ran on Achill Island. I'm republishing it here, along with some others, to make sure I have them all in one place on my website.
Revisiting an interview I gave to the Mayo News in 2014 about moving to Achill and living and working on the island
Ten years is a long time! In 2013 I gave an interview to James Sweetman for his online e-Zine and Blog. In it we discussed my life before I became a painter and how I made the transition to full time artist. James is a highly-rated and well-respected Executive and Personal Coach, Trainer, Keynote Speaker, Author and Columnist, and he had some great questions. Below is the interview in full..
This is an article I wrote for the US website EmptyEasel.com in 2014. It is a short guide to my own philosophy around making a living as an artist.
In the world of art, few subjects have captured the imagination and creativity of artists as powerfully as landscapes. Here is an article written for the benefit of Google SEO :-)
My new solo exhibition, ‘The Ties That Bind’, opens in the Doorway Gallery, Dublin on July 7th and runs until July 28th. Here is an interview I gave to the Doorway Gallery as part of the social media campaign....
The RTE Nationwide TV programme is now available to view on the RTE Player.
In August this year I got to spend a magical 8 days at the Cill Rialaig artist residency in Co.Kerry
RTE Nationwide visited Achill in May, 2021 to film me in my studio and surroundings and to talk about my work and time on Achill Island
A DAY IN THE LIFE: PADRAIG MCCAUL, 20 APRIL 2021
An insightful, glowing review of Fáinne Óir from author and film producer, Kevin Fortuna.
Fáinne Óir opened to standing ovations in New York and Castlebar. Here is a comprehensive review by the Irish Echo, the oldest and largest selling Irish newspaper in USA.
Composer and conductor Kathy Fahey is bringing an ambitious new music and contemporary dance production to stage
I am absolutely thrilled to let you know about the world premiere of a new music and contemporary dance production, Fáinne Óir, which takes place on September 20th in the Theatre Royal, Castlebar before moving to New York for a performance in the Symphony Space Theatre, Broadway, on September 26th.
I am very excited to have been asked to create a set of new original paintings to be used as the backdrops for a new Irish contemporary music and dance production, Fáinne Óir.
A MAYO artist who is just back from a sell-out exhibition in Australia will be showing his vivid portraits of the Achill landscape at Ireland’s premier art fair Art Source, in the RDS from November 10 to 12. http://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2017/11/01/4147921-mayo-artist-in-the-national-spotlight-after-australian-success/
I held my first exhibition in Australia in July this year at the Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle. It was a great success and turned out to be a complete sell out.
I recently exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in London with the Doorway Gallery. It's always an exciting fair to be at and this was, I think, my sixth time at the fair. Here's a link to a great review of the show from William McKenzie.
Padraig McCaul paintings to feature in new national Eircode marketing campaign
Summer 2016 is going to be very busy, with paintings workshops, exhibitions and a major national marketing campaign to look forward to.
This is an interview I gave to the Galway Advertiser in the run up to my exhibition at the Townhall Theatre in Galway in March this year.

Australian Exhibition is a Complete Sell Out

9/4/2017 5:28:46 PM

Stories of Home

An exhibition of oil paintings and limited edition enhanced prints by

Irish artist Padraig McCaul

 

The White Gallery@Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle

ph: +61 401 333 309

 

July 13th to 19th

 

Kidogo Arthouse presents 'Stories of Home', an exhibition of original oil paintings and hand finished enhnaced limited edition prints by Irish artist Padraig McCaul. This will be McCaul's first time exhibiting in Australia.

Home for Padraig McCaul is Achill Island, located off Ireland’s western seaboard. A place which has had a profound influence on his paintings, which are inspired by the natural beauty and colour of the surrounding landscape. Home is also that special place that he shares on Achill with his wife Anne and their three children, under the shade of Slievemore mountain, minutes from Silver Strand beach and the Atlantic ocean.

 

This collection of paintings and enhanced limited edition prints are drawn from this place called Home and include images of family life on the island, old farm houses, roads and country lanes in simple, uncluttered, coloured filled compositions. Since moving to Achill McCaul's evocotive paintings of the west of Ireland have continued to evolve and now include more figurative work, sometimes based on, but always inspired by his own family.

 

'My figures are inspired, in part, by the drawings my own children make. The simplicity and minimalism of a 4 year old's way of drawing seems to work well with my landscapes! I like to think that I am using their visual language to represent them in my paintings'.

 

The other major influence on his figurative paintings has been Australian artist Sidney Nolan, an artist that has captured the uniqueness of the Australian landscape in his paintings of Australian legends, in particular the Ned Kelly series which was on display in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

 

www.padraigmccaul.com