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Irish painter Paul McCloskey was born in Carrickmacross, Co.
Monaghan and is now living and working in Gorey Co. Wexford.
Paul attended the National College of Art and Design (N.C.A.D)
Dublin from 1981 and graduated in 1986. Paul also attended De
Montfort University UK and was awarded a Masters Degree in
Fine art painting (MFA) in 2010. He has exhibited extensively
both nationally and internationally throughout the UK, London,
Venice, Paris and New York and he has received multiple awards
for his work, which can be seen in numerous collections.

“My visual influence is determined by the surrounding land-
scape, but its intention is primarily as a catalyst in expressing di-
vinity and is therefore secondary to this expression, the primary
purpose being process, allowing, presence and place.

The varied and stunning Irish landscape, coupled with our un-
settled weather and therefore often fleeting and mottled light,
inspires me greatly. Often a view will change or an area will
be illuminated by a simple break in the clouds, highlighting as
if a shimmering treasure or jewel, a corner of a field, the side
of some rocky cliff or the dynamic sweeping curves of a valley
reminding us that we are an integral part of and connected to a
whole. Effectively, this encourages us to see and most impor-
tantly feel its beauty and spirit therefore reconnecting to this vi-
tal part of us.

The suggestion of heaven and earth in constant struggle, merg-
ing yet separable, solid yet amorphous all suggest the multidi-
mensional nature of the spiritual, the beginning and the end, the
alpha and omega, the struggle within, between the conditioned
self and the divine/spiritual self”.

AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH