Striking oil paintings characterised by direct simplicity of the subject matter - people, villages etc. Cubism and expressionism influences. Painting used for cover of The Bodhrán Makers by John B. Keane. Fulltime artist. "They are alive with colour and awareness of a different meaning", Dr John Feehan said of Bob O Cathail's megalithic paintings (Feb '90). Commenting that we will only preserve and enhance our physical heritage when we explain it to those who live in the area and show how it fits into their lives. "It so rarely happens that we see the cultural heritage of the landscape celebrated with the freshness and excitement with which these paintings celebrate it."