While Robert Egginton paints what looks like a timeless Kerry landscape it is a place that is constantly evolving under the influence of human and weather.

The extensive remains of prefamine houses around the shores of Killarney’s Upper Lake are now cloaked in mosses‚ under oak woodland that thrives in Killarney’s mild‚ moist climate (‘Ladies View’ and ‘Upper Lake’).

Cascading streams help give the mountains an ever more rugged appearance and the volume and speed of their waters widen and change the course of lowland rivers (‘Caragh River with McGillicuddy Reeks in the Background’)

Economic and social pressures continue to dictate where people live. In the early years of the 20th century coastal regions fed and employed many more (‘Derrynane Harbour’ and ‘Cromane’).

Up to a generation ago there were many more employed in agriculture. Nearly every small farm was worked fulltime by a husband and wife and in many cases at least one other. Now one man is on his own (‘Killorglin Farm’).

But the fundamental shaping of the landscape began billions of years ago and had its final phase in the slow‚ grinding passage of a 1‚600 foot depth of ice and snow over a two million year period that ended less than 14‚000 years ago. This gouged out all of the weak or soft parts of the mountains. It shaped endless Kerry valleys and left behind hundreds of lakes (‘Gap of Dunloe’).

While the human mark would appear to be miniscule on a huge panorama of strand‚ sea and mountain (‘Rossbeigh’) but yet the interplay of man and place is enormous.

Robert Egginton celebrates Kerry's stunning physical landscape and encourages the exploration of its depth and scope.