Portrait of Bernard Leach ... Tony O'Malley
Portraits of the artist's parents ... Tony O'Malley
Tony
O'Malley HRHA
Artist Bio
Tony O’Malley
(1913-2003) was a self-taught painter from Callan in County Kilkenny who
developed a passion for art from a young age, painting for pleasure. Though he
started his career in banking, a battle with illness forced him to turn his
full attention towards art, eventually taking it on as a profession.
He spent some time in St Ives in Cornwall where he took strong influence from
the St Ives artistic community. When his close friend Peter Lanyon was killed
in a plane crash, O’Malley dedicated many of his paintings to his memory and
took on a more sombre palette. It wasn’t until he married and travelled to the
Bahamas around a decade later that his work became characterised by a use of
bolder colours.
The artist was elected a Saoi of Aosdána and the Irish Museum of Modern Art
held a major retrospective of his
Most interesting. Thank you Mr Vincent.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder if you have been able to unearth anything about Luuk van der Drift?
That painting THE PLEADING LEPER says so much to me. I see so much in that pleading face.
Not so far Mr Vincent. I will report back if I do find out more.
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