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E scape Paul McCloskey
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an interview with
Harbour dance – mixed media
Another pieces of yours on which I would like to I found exploring a singular theme across a series
spend some words are your early works Harbour the most rewarding in my practice. In the Lough
Dance and especially the interesting series Derg series I try to capture the sway and
Lough Dergh: a visual of these pieces that has movement of people, gesturing in devout expres-
really impacted on me is the sense of movement: sion as they walk on the pilgrimage route, burde-
your works are very "dynamical" ... By the way,
any comment about your palette and how has ned with their inner and secret yearnings in the
changed in the years? hope that their prayers will be answered.
My earlier works such as harbour dance and wash I can see when I look back at this series painted
say symphony explore more random subjects, in the late 1980’s that the romantic influence is
often unrelated in content, however as my there even then, with a dramatic influence of the
portraits, they do show the beginning of my baroque period, however the pallet is inclined
search for something beyond the surface. towards my favourite Irish painter Jack Yeats. They
Whereas the Lough Derg series, based on the are almost theatrical, strong contrast in light with
poem of the same name by my favourite the broken crosses representative of a dispirited
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Irish/Monaghan poet Patrick Kavanagh, is where Celtic era. These were painted during Irelands
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