| How we look at Christmas and what it means to each of us is so different. Like this exhibition for Christmas that marks the gallery’s 22nd birthday. |
| Autumn Flower Pots (no.1 Pauline Bewick) shows a rich range of seasonal browns. The last of the leaves on trees and bushes. The gathering together of garden furniture and pots into a corner of the garden. Soon it will be winter. |
| Cowslip, dandelion and grasses in the foreground. In the middle of the picture streaks of bare sand, pools of water and mountains. At the top blue sky and streaky white/grey clouds. All part of Ebbed Tide (no. 2). |
| Spring in Killarney (no. 5 Michael Downes) is an idyllic vignette of a woodland scene. The trees are cloaked in fresh, light green new leaves. On the ground a carpet of white wild garlic - one of the special wonders of April/May. A scene that the two children will remember forever. |
| Near Ross Castle (no. 6) is a timeless scene. Lough Leane, the wooded middle ground, the mountain backdrop and the timeless - and ever changing sky - also reflected in the lake. The picture is uninterrupted by anything that might have been seen at any time over the millenia. |
| The three O'Shea brothers in action in the year that was to see Kerry win three-in-a-row. It was not to be. In a final that was to see Kerry beat Dublin. It did not happen. But Paul Downey's Deartháiracha (brothers - no. 1) celebrates a unique family in a great team. |
| In the sport of kings ( Flat Season - no. 3) three horses and their riders have unleashed all of their power, speed and skill to be first past the post. |
| For more than 250 years visitors have travelled through the Gap of Dunloe (no. 6 by Robert Egginton) on foot, horseback or in a horse drawn trap. For many more years farmers herded sheep on these mountains. Anglers from all parts of this country and many parts of the world have come to fish in the Glencar River at Blackstones Bridge (no. 5). |
| In Any Excuse (no. 1 Dylan Hodd) a little girl on her way to school in a land of lakes and mountains unburdens her worries to a pig who appears kindly but not very focussed as if thinking "here she goes again". Or maybe the little girl is imagining/hoping for all of this? |
| The adolescent male appears to be down in the dumps, oblivious of the lake and woodland beauty around him - and he would not appear to want for anything. Perhaps Heirloom (no. 2) is suggesting the answer to all of his problems. |
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