2022
The Stray Field 2018 - 22
Oil on canvas
92 x 183 cm
Private Collection
photo credit ; Dickon Whitehead
This large scale painting was worked on for several years and too on a new importance to me in the studio during the lockdowns. It was based on an old, neglected landscape glimpsed and explored in north Sligo, part memory and part imagining. I began to add more layers and greater depth to the surface as the months of isolation rolled on. I became fascinated with the endless possibilities of the concept of the 'Stray field' in Irish mythology; which existed as a hazey twilight zone between the waking world and the dreamtime, a gateway to the underworld from our daily reality.
C O'L 2022
2020 - 21
During this period of time there were local and national lockdowns due to the global Covidpandemic.
Galleries closed (nationally and internationally) and the art world in general shut down
(online art activity increased, but lacked the necessary impact of seeing art in the 'real world')
Unable to travel I began to focus on local environs for visual ideas, as well as returning to my art
library for further inspiration.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
Cormac & Caitriona O'Leary - 2 person show, Doorway Gallery, Dublin Feb / March 2013
2012
