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Sat 04 Apr 2010Sea Urchins
For his rugged, atmospheric landscape paintings, Padraig McCaul draws inspiration from the west coast of Ireland, especially Achill Island. The first time he went there, he says, was on his return from a stint in San Francisco. “What I saw in Achill dwarfed anything I’d seen on the west coast of the US.”
The strength of the landscape, the cliffs, the mountains, the boggy swathes, the swirling sea, and most of all the earthy colours, stay fresh in his mind while he evokes them on canvas, under the shelter of the Sugar Loaf.
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