On the Town: The chance to see work by the internationally renowned artist Sean Scully at Dublin's Kerlin Gallery, drew a large group. "It's a deeply impressive exhibition, not to be missed," said Louis Le Brocquy.
The artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who was there with his son, artist Conánn Fitzpatrick, said "I love the brooding darkness of it all." Artist Corban Walker loved "what happens in between the bands of colour . . . the space in between".
"It's really powerful. The colour is incredible," said designer John Rocha, recently returned from London Fashion Week. The key this season, he said, is "lots of embellishment. There are so many styles in the fashion world but one thing can make it individual."
Artists Abigail O'Brien and Mary Kelly also attended the show. "We're thinking Freud," said O'Brien mysteriously, on their interpretation of Scully's work. Alice Maher, just back from Rennes in France, greeted fellow Tipperary artist, Bernadette Kiely. Maher's husband, artist Dermot Seymour, will have his work featured at the Irish Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of Irish art in May. The exhibition is being organised to raise funds for Amnesty International. Third year National College of Art and Design students, Ferdia Mag Lochlainn and Mark Baker, were also there to view the work.
Scully, who was born in Inchicore, Dublin in 1945, now lives in New York, Barcelona, and Koenigsdorf in Germany. His work, which sells for between $60,000 and $100,000 in the US, comprised seven new paintings, all oil on linen varying from the smallest, measuring 24 x 32 inches to the largest, measuring 108 x 132 inches.
The Sean Scully show at the Kerlin Gallery, Anne's Lane, Dublin 2, runs until Saturday, May 1st.