- "Achill Rainbow ", Achill Island,
Ireland, an original oil on panel is the third in a series of
paintings with Irish subject matter. In this day scene painting
I wish to acknowledge that sense of old that leaves it evidence
of giving rise to the new that seems to eternally chase rainbows
over the very horizon as the generations spread out in the pursuit
of life. When I visited Ireland the past seemed to be alive in
the record of yesterday most abundantly even as the new economic
boom pastes itself across the Irish landscape. The Rainbows on
Achill Island are among the best that I have ever seen and yes
I chased them to this end, not in the pursuit of gold but definitely
in the pursuit of beauty. When one paints a place of such beauty
it is not for ownership but rather to extend the involvement
with ones repour with the beauty that was experienced there.
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