Janet Mclean

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Winner of the Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2020. Is this Normal? by Eva McParland (14). Photograph: Roy Hewson/National Gallery of Ireland
Art online: Prize-winning portraits and little-known Mondrians

Anna Purna Kambhampaty, in a Time Magazine feature headlined How art movements tried to make sense of the world in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic, (...)

George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869),fungi collected, Derry, 1837.Watercolour and pencil on paper, Courtesy of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
Flower power: the beauty of Irish botanical art

Pioneering Irish artists are at the heart of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new exhibition, Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art, spanning almost(...)

Jennifer Jewell: “I see hope and value in a self-sustaining cycle of living with plants, loving plants, learning plants, growing plants, knowing plants, interpreting plants.” Photograph: John Whittlesey
Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes

  We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

At the launch of the Hennessy/National Gallery of Ireland inaugural portrait prize, from left: judges Donald Teskey, Janet McLean, Cristín Leach Hugh and Dr Declan Long. The portraits shown are Evie Hone by Hilda van Stockum and Seamus Heaney by Jackie Nickerson. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
New annual Irish portrait prize worth €20,000 announced

The Hennessy Portrait Prize, aimed at raising the public profile of contemporary portraiture, has been launched b(...)