Exhibition 12 Sept 24 - 5 Nov 24

These paintings were previously exhibited at the Ìontas Art Centre, County Monaghan as part of Magaret's SCÉALTA MO SHINSIR collection

Ag tiomáint na ba abhaile / Driving the cows home

Ag tiomáint na ba abhaile / Driving the cows home

€520.00

Original Painting

Medium: A palette knife oil painting on canvas.
Size: 20”x 28”

To me, this is a scene so often repeated on many a country road throughout the land. In the background we have the rolling drumlins of Monaghan as a young boy helps his grandfather to drive the cows home, guiding that last cow, the “straggler” down a typical rural road, and watched by his faithful Border Collie. Along the way, they pass a derelict house, roof damaged, wild plants climbing the weathered walls. This scene represents the continuation of traditions, the handing down of old ways, the abandoned dwelling, a reminder of previous generations who also would have passed this way with their cattle through the ages.

 

 

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Margaret McKenna
Carrick Eighter, Virginia, Co. Cavan, Ireland
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Art to me, is storytelling a means to visually capture the atmosphere and tell the tales behind our landscape or capture the essence of that person’s character.

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