Imagine Gallery

Time flies when your having fun, or especially when you are always thinking about the future.

Or as described better by John Lennon

"Life is what happens while your busy making other plans".

That is what I have been guilty of, "making other plans" or thinking of the future,

Meanwhile important events have been happening while I have been planning ahead.

I can only explain it by describing how on a daily basis I will have someone tell me

"You have such beautiful things on display",

My thoughts will be "just wait until you see what is coming".

I think this each and every day, but for me tomorrow never comes

I'm definitely a person who has a cup half full, and when things sell I start to panic about where I can find something equally as beautiful to replace "that" piece with.

So I start to search.

Then I want to tell you about who I have just discovered.

I want to tell you about "this"or"that" artist whose work will be here one day, then I tend to get over excited and undecided about what to mention first, so don't write anything at all.

 

This does tend to make life much easier for a lazy person like myself.

"Hhmmmm! What shall I write about"?

'Nothing', job done.

 So today, I decided to take a step back to reality and talk about art that actually is here

Art that I am excited about and which I am very proud to be exhibiting.

The last time I picked up my pen I mentioned an artist whose work I was looking forward to arriving.

It's now here.

 The paintings of Jimmy Lawlor.

Jimmy is an artist I have admired for a very long time, his beautiful paintings are the

"stuff that dreams are made of".

In fact they seem to come from dreams or very poignant stories.

Perhaps, 'poignant' isn't the correct description

Because apart from being very moving they sometimes also possess a great deal of humor.

They are beautiful in there execution and also great fun, they occupy a space in our imagination

Yet, they are also very "human" paintings, they show images of us as we were, as we are

And how we will be.

Age is very prevalent in all of his art.

 

So too are the landscapes.

To me it is obvious where these people of different ages all live.

Ireland

Albeit a different version to the reality of the location, yet still instantly recognizable. 

As is shown in the painting above they also express a great gentleness and sensitivity.

The painting below is perhaps one of my favorites.

It really captures the world of my childhood.

It reminds be of the wonderful book 'Bevis a Story of a Boy', by Richard Jeffries

Although it was written in 1882 the story of a young boy and his adventures is timeless.

So is this painting.

A boy, with his best friend and his vivid imagination, what an exciting world.

I truly love this, it makes me feel young again.

I suppose that is the power of art, your age may change but your inner emotions don't and at times

All it needs is a painting or sculpture to unlock time and join the two together.

A clever, talented and very nice man.

I have wanted to exhibit his art for six years, some things are worth waiting for.

Now, onto something just slightly different. 

I was recommended by a painter [that's how it works] to look at the sculptures by a Russian artist.

'Tatiana' or Tanya as it is pronounced in our little island

Despite my many bilingual talents I am still unable to get my tongue around her proper name,

[Give me a week or two then speaking Russian will be another of my many talents].

Tanya creates sculptures from clay and found objects, each piece very unusual

but all with a sense of great age and history.

Of course her small antique additions help create the feeling of great age

But it is the story of each piece which creates the history, some of her sculptures will have more than one title,

It seems that she has named pieces to help with the English interpretation and understanding of each sculpture.

She has exhibited and worked in many different countries, but now for some reason she works

in our small part of this country.

Her work defies being placed into any category but it does really engage the imagination.

When I have fully caught up with my very belated posts I will tell and show much more of her work.

Meanwhile, I have lots more to tell you about.

But as they say

"That's for Another day."