When I was at university my tutor mentioned Felim Egan to me, as he felt the artist's work would resonate with me, and he was so right. I just love Egan's restrained, elegant paintings. Monochromatic expanses of colour are built up slowly with layers of acylic, and a distinct vocabulary of motifs are sparingly placed across the surfaces. Although abstract, his paintings evoke the landscapes of his home, of horizons, sand and sea which the poet Seamus Heaney, has described as “a balance of shifting brilliances”.
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