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They Left Their Shadows 2008
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Fishing Port 1986
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Krakow, April 1961
Exhibition
PADRAIG MAC MIADHACHAIN (1929 – 2017) A Life of Painting
11 Jun 2018 – 2 Jul 2018
Address
- Higher Bussow Farm
- Towednack
- St Ives
England - TR26 3BB
- United Kingdom
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Based in Swanage, Dorset, from the early 1950s and working from studios in various parts of the world, Pádraig Mac Miadhacháin established a full time career painting for a living and living to paint.
About
Following early career scholarships to Russia and Poland, Mac Miadhacháin made almost annual painting journeys to Argentina, Mexico, Uruquay, Canary Islands, Ibiza and Ireland. The experiences of travel and the discovery of alternative cultures fed into his work directly, and several paintings in this exhibition illustrate these various cultural references. However, Dorset remained the artist's mainstay throughout the seven decades of his artistic life, and he was always excited to return there to see the place afresh.This retrospective exhibition is the first attempt to view Mac Miadhacháin's work in chronological order. It is interesting to see not only the evolution of a personal visual language, but also the artist's ability to move from abstract to figurative and back again, from tonal painting to high chroma, minimalist to narrative, dependent on the subject and artistic intent.
