Diverse art in duo’s PorterShed exhibition

Two local artists will showcase their contrasting styles in an exhibition of oil paintings which is opening in City’s PorterShed on Monday next, June 12, and will run for the remainder of the month.

The 25 paintings include a mix of seascapes and French landscapes by Margaret Clayton as well as still life and abstract paintings of the human form by Marie Goaley with ‘an eye on you’.

Like many people with an interest in art, both women are self-taught with the help of adult painting classes over many years, both here in Galway and abroad.

A native of Roscommon, Margaret was a late bloomer taking her first art class in 2005. Subsequently she spent a year in France where she attended oil painting classes at La Cour des Arts in St Remy de Provence, a village associated with the paintings of Vincent van Gogh.

Her work is influenced by the light and colour of the impressionist painters of Provence, in particular the blues and greens of Paul Cezanne. Now living in Moycullen, Margaret likes to paint a wide variety of seascapes and rural landscapes.

She previously exhibited her work in Renzo Café in the City’s Eyre Street.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.