An Gailearaí
A Scattering of Light – Homage to Gaoth Dobhair
- Friday 17th July
- 8pm
- Visual Arts & Film
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An Gailearaí
A Scattering of Light - Homage to Gaoth Dobhair
Artist, Ian Gordon has been a resident of Dún Luiche for over 40 years and as an established landscape painter he has chosen to celebrate his local environs.
To Gordon, the enigma of this densely-populated coastal strip has a unique beauty which he works to capture in his painting.
Over the course of eight months he has explored the hidden byways searching for ‘perfect views’ within the locality to set up his easel. These are really elegant and accomplished works, yet they are hard won. Gordon is an intuitive ‘en plein air’, meaning he paints directly from the scenes location, outside in the elements.
En plein air painting is no gimmick for Gordon, it is his ‘élan vital’, his vital force, and he has been working like this for decades.
This painting method gives the artist the opportunity to be dynamic, expressive and act ‘in the moment’, allowing no time for ‘tyding up’ or ‘fixing’. So what we get is an immediate, unedited response.
As a colourist, Gordon has a lifetime of experience layering contrasting colours which, viewed from a distance, merge to a coherent whole.
This body of work is a fitting homage to the artist’s locality, an accomplished celebration of the light and colour therein.
- Date: Friday 17th July
- Time: 8pm
- Location: YouTube
- Venue: NA
- Admission/Cost: Free
An Gailearaí
Solas Spréite - Urraim do Ghaoth Dobhair
Is ealaíontóir tírdhreacha é Ian Gordon atá ag cur faoi i nDún Lúiche anois le níos mó ná 40 bliain agus a bhfuil ceiliúradh déanta aige ar an taobh tíre sa dúiche ina bhfuil cónaí air.
Measann Gordon go bhfuil rúndiamhair ag baint leis an cheantar cósta seo a bhfuil dlús ard daonra ann agus féachann sé leis an áilleacht faoi leith a bhaineann leis a léiriú ina chuid pictiúr.
Chaith sé tréimhse ocht mí ag fámaireacht thart fá chúlbhealaí ceilte sa cheantar, é ag cuartú ‘radharcanna foirfe’ áit a dtiocfadh leis a thacas a shocrú.
Is saothair ghalánta ar ardchaighdeán iad seo ar caitheadh dua mór leo. Is ealaíontóir iomasach ‘en plein air’ é Gordon a dhéanann a chuid péinteála ar fad ar an láthair agus a thugann dúshlán na síne.
Ní cleas ar bith í an phéinteáil seo ‘en plein air’ do Gordon – is é a ‘élan vital’ é, a fhórsa beathúil, agus tá sé ag péinteáil mar seo leis na blianta fada.
Tugann an modh péintéireachta seo an deis don ealaíontóir a bheith dinimiciúil, é féin a chur in iúl agus gníomhú ‘i láthair na huaire’, rud a fhágann nach mbíonn faill aige ‘slacht’ a chur ar shaothar ná é ‘a dheisiú’. An rud a fhaigheann muid, mar sin, ná freagairt láithreach nach bhfuil curtha in eagar.
Mar dhathóir, tá taithí saoil ag Gordon ar shraitheanna de dhathanna codarsnacha a chruthú, a thig le chéile mar shaothar iomlán amháin agus an té atá ag amharc orthu achar uathu.
Is ómós iontach fóirsteanach do cheantar an ealaíontóra an saothar seo: ceiliúradh éachtach ar an tsolas agus ar an dath.you
- Dáta: Dé hAoine 17 Iúil
- Am: 8pm
- Suíomh: YouTube
- Ionad: NA
- Cead isteach/Costas: Saor in aisce