PRESS RELEASES APRIL 2008
Feast your eyes with some Food for Thought
It will be a feast for the eyes at the Tynan Gallery next week when a wonderful exhibition entitled “Food For Thought” opens.
The work featured in the Portlaoise Gallery is all related to the theme of food and it will provide a wonderful art display. Margaret Jeffares Managing Director of Good Food Ireland will officially open the exhibition on Thursday, May 1st.
The location of the Tynan Gallery, in the famed restaurant Jim’s Kitchen, is a wonderful location for this beautiful exhibition which focused on food. Jim’s Kitchen and Foodhall was awarded The Good Food Ireland Café/Restaurant of the Year honour.
The artist showing her work is Marie Fallon, a full-time artist and art teacher. Her paintings celebrate her twin passions and she is frequently to be found sketching along the coastline from Blackrock to Malahide.
Marie’s latest body of paintings show a further diversification of her subject matter and explore the still life genre reflecting the Dutch still life of the 1600’s and a more contemporary focus on this concept is explored.
Using her techniques of attention to detail and use of ambient light, Marie shows a genuine empathy for this eternally fascinating genre.
Marie is a member of the Dublin Sketching Club and has exhibited on a regular basis over the last seven years at The Leinster Gallery, Daffodil Gallery, Mulvaney Gallery and Kilcock Gallery. Her work can be found in the OPW collection and many Corporate and private collections.
Plenty of food for thought at Portlaoise exhibition
Food for Thought is the rather apt name for the latest exhibition at the Tynan Gallery in Portlaoise. As the gallery is located in The Kitchen and Foodhall which has been awarded The Good food Ireland Café/Restaurant of the Year title it is apt that the Tynan Gallery is featuring such beautiful work with a theme of food. It will be a wonderful chance for art lovers and food lovers to combine both passions.
The exhibition features the work of Dubliner Marie Fallon who is a full-time artist and art teacher. Her Paintings celebrate her twin passions and she is frequently to be found sketching along the coastline from Blackrock up to Malahide.
Her keen observational skills are reflected in the way in which her subjects are captured in entirely realistic settings of young children at play and local landscapes.
Her latest body of paintings show a further diversification of her subject matter as she explores the still life genre reflecting the Dutch school of painting of the 1600s all the while exploring a more contemporary focus on this concept.
A paring back of the objects within an arrangement and simplification of the subject exhibits an isolation and in turn an amplification of the subject in these works.
The ambient light focuses the objects and shows a genuine empathy for these eternally fascinating genre. Marie is a member of the Dublin Sketching Club and has exhibited on a regular basis over the last seven years at The Leinster Gallery, Daffodil Gallery, Mulvaney Gallery and Kilcock Gallery. Her work can be found in the OPW collection and may corporate and private collections. The exhibition will be opened by Margaret Jeffares Managing Director of Good Food Ireland on Thursday evening May 1st and will continue to June 16th.
Marie Fallon
Marie Fallon latest body of work can be viewed in two categories. The first is reflective of the Dutch Still Life in the 1600’s: with luxurious table arrangements of strawberries and cream, polished silverware, zest filled fruits, while the second grouping has a more contemporary focus on the concept of still life. A paring back of the objects within the arrangement and a simplification. In so doing, these works exhibit isolation and in turn an amplification of the subject.
Marie has exhibited in the Oireachtas and many galleries nationwide including the Leinster Gallery and Greenacres. She is a member of The Dublin Painting and Sketchers Club.
Collections
O. P.W. Collection, Dept. of Justice, Fingal County Libraries, Fingal County Council Collections, Rehab Lotteries, Clontarf Orthopaedic Hospital and the Cathal Ryan Collection. The Minister of the Department of Social and Family Affairs selected on of her works as the official department Xmas card of 2003.
