Exhibition: Thereby Hangs a Tale

Official opening of an exhibition of works by Jacinta Crowley-Long On Thursday 28th May 2009, at 7.30 p.m.

Athy Heritage Centre MuseumAthy

Event Details

  • Thu 28 May - Thu 11 Jun  2009


  • Venue Details
    Athy Heritage Centre Museum

    Shackleton Museum
    Town Hall, Emily Square
    Athy



Jacinta Crowley-Long is a Wicklow based painter and has a deserved reputation as one of Irelands’ foremost contemporary canine and equestrian artists.

She has been selected in recent years to exhibit at the prestigious International Exhibition of Equestrian Art at both Christies and the Mall Galleries, London. This exhibition is held annually to showcase the work of the best of British and international equine artists.

Her paintings are  in many corporate and private collections in Ireland, America and Europe, including the OPW, De Beers, SA, ETP International and BP International. In 2005 she was invited by Claude-Hugues Pissarro, grandson of the renowned impressionist  Camille Pissarro, to exhibit at the Salon de La Rochelle, France, where she was the recipient of a Gold Medal d’Honneur. She has been invited to show her work at the American Academy of Equine Art and the Salon International de Samaur  and has also exhibited at the Irish National Stud, the Palace House Gallery, Newmarket, England and the Irish Fine Arts Showcase Exhibition in Wales.

She is acclaimed for her paintings of rural landscapes, country life, period interiors and equine and canine portraits. Working primarily in oils, her subject matter depicts the changing moods and drama of nature in the landscape and the genteel splendour and often eccentricities of Irelands surviving country houses and demesnes.

The life-long love she has had for horses and dogs is evident in her paintings. The majority of her commissioned work specialises in portraits and scenes for the Irish and British racing fraternity.

The aura of magic realism in conjuring up unique atmospheres in her painting, maintains a link with the romantic Irish artists of previous centuries and also aligns her with a number of representational painters currently emerging in Ireland. Her paintings have the reputation of capturing an ethereal atmosphere of moments captured in time, sometimes tranquil, other times vigorous and pulsating. At this exhibition one can sense the expectancy and tautness in her animal portraits, wallow in country life, walk in sunlit gardens or experience the excitement of the sporting life – coming away with a feeling of enrichment.


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