The visitors to the Rubicon Gallery like the depth and the light in the paintings by Aidan McDermott.
"They are very Renaissance, I like the depth in them," says Peadar Bratton, an art teacher. Yes, we nod, very Renaissance. They're very deep - have depth, that is.
His work "is very brave, it's fabulous," says Geraldine O'Reilly, peeping out from her black fringe that is like Uma Thurman's in Pulp Fiction. An artist today, "is still very much living on the periphery of society. It's a brave new world," she says. Her own work is on the back boiler while she works and rears her family.
The banker turned artist uses match-stick figures to represent reality. His work is entitled "Morphic Landscapes". Dubliner McDermott, in black leather jacket, once worked in a bank but, "I have a forward life as opposed to a past life," he states firmly. Right. Onwards to the morphing landscape. Niall Wright, another artist, says he likes Falling Tower, which is already sold. He likes the models in the paintings which "can't be misconstrued, they're model figures".
Two post-grad physicists - Caitriona Creely, the artist's niece, and Jean-Edouard Communal - also enjoy the images.