The Doolin Rural Art Workshop

Old traditions through a new wave wang-eyed folk art filter by Tim Bradford

About the artist • Exhibitions • Gallery 1 • Gallery 2

The Doolin Rural Art Workshop was set up in order to develop my continuing experiments in the field of folk art. For a long time I've been working on a series of transcendental paintings for an open-ended exhibition in my head called Pictures From A Parallel Universe Irish Cottage. Over the years I've been continued to be influenced by:
* Holy well decorations
* Irish 'celebrity' pictures
* Egyptian funerary portraits
* Venezuelan rustic art
* African barbershop signs
* religious icons
* surf T-shirts
* football cards
* crap signs
* those blue photos you get in old shop windows

A lot of my work involves fruitless searches for things that are lost, be they people, underground rivers, stories, buildings or ways of life. Regular motifs include the connecting and merging of maps, old photographs and whiskey-based visions. The beauty of the the mundane. The epiphanies - I call them "Zen Newsflashes" - that are close to home. This is partly due to a desire to make sacred the familiar and also because I am a lazy shite.

I spend part of the year in Lurraga, a small townland near Doolin in Co Clare and the rest of the time I'm based in Highbury, North London.


If you are interested in buying any of the paintings here please email me.

How Owning Crap Land Can Have A Negative Impact On Your Sex Life (Acrylic on Board)		The Lurraga Land Wars: Part 1 (SOLD)		JFK At The GAA (Acrylic on canvas)

Maud Gonne Fishing (SOLD)		Discovering A Unified Theory of Everything While Seated At a Bar in the West of Ireland (SOLD)		I Follow The Blind Dog (SOLD)

Hecho En Venezuela Numero Uno (SOLD)		The Jesus of Finsbury Park		Dream of A Know-it-all Golden Goddess

Gallery no. 2 - Queen Maeve in Lisdoonvarna, A Camogie Match, Charlie Haughey, some pretty flowers and lots more...

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This page last updated October 26, 2009.