‘Summer Evening Sundown’, oil on canvas, 31 x 41 cm, €1,000.

Vincent Crotty

‘West Kerry Light’

Highly regarded for his landscapes and figurative paintings, Vincent explores the places and faces of both sides of the Atlantic coasts. Born and raised in Kanturk, County Cork, Vincent moved to Boston in 1990 to further expand his already extensive art training and practice. In a style that is loose and fresh, cheerful and evocative, his paintings express a highly individual vision in contemporary representational painting.
 
Painting always from life or memory, Vincent’s plein air approach creates a feeling of ease and spontaneity in his work. He attains the most remarkable understanding of light and colour. Fluid, confident brushstrokes, balanced by sensitive colour and tone, convey vivid moods that depict an immediate sense of time and place. In this, his new ‘West Kerry Light’ series, Vincent skillfully captures moving and memorable scenes with transcendent light. Magnificent bursts of Irish winter sunshine illuminate the landscapes and wet galvanized roofs are transformed by silvery gleams of light. Our very wild, very special, West Kerry landscape is transfixed. Of this fascination with light Vincent recalls:

‘Stradbally, Castlegregory’, oil on canvas, 31 x 41 cm, €850.

‘Winter Light’, oil on canvas, 31 x 41 cm, €900.

‘One of my earliest memories, long before I could talk, is of sitting in a pram and watching the sunshine make patterns of light on the kitchen wall. I was mesmerized. I have always been sensitive to light and colour.’

‘The Kerry Coast’, oil on canvas, 31 x 41 cm, €850.

‘Rusty Roof in Evening Light’, oil on canvas, 31 x 61 cm, €1,200.

‘Glentenassig, Furze & Heather’, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 cm, €595.

Vincent remarkable understanding of light and colour transfixes vibrant Irish landscapes into memorable and moving scenes. He captures magnificent bursts of Irish winter sunshine that illuminate our very wild and special landscape, and he transforms wet galvanized roofs of rustic dwellings with silvery gleams of light.

‘Near the Conor Pass’, oil on canva, 31 x 41 cm, €950.

‘Near Ballyferriter’, oil on canvas, 20  x 41 cm, €800.

For full details on Vincent Crotty’s work please visit here.