Desmond Downes

My work looks at the sometimes “mundane” or “every day” places that surround the West and North West of Ireland. Subjects include the landscape, working farms, factories or disused Industrial estates.
I work with a small tripod mounted “Pochade” Box which allows me to sketch in all terrain. Irish weather however, being Irish weather, will never keep still and this becomes quite a challenge. Light, Colour and the sense of place are what inspire me. After a day on location, and if luck will have it, a painting in the bag! I come away with a relationship with that place.”

Waterford College of Art and Design (Dipl.Design/Communications) graduating in 1986

Set Design: “Das Pflaumenhuhn” (A Film by Hayo Fritag - Awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Prize for Atmosphere and nominated for the German Short Film Award in 1998.

BG painting teacher: Germany, Denmark, Associates in Art, Los Angeles. CA

Californian Plein Air Group, LA. The Kilternan Gallery, Dublin. The Lavelle Gallery, Clifden. SeaSkyShore Gallery, Westport. The Cat and the Moon Gallery, Sligo. theGallery Kinsale.

Edgar Payne, Anders Zorn, Wassily Kandinski...

oils, pleinair, atlantic, ireland, landscape, impressionist