Anne Garvey
All my life I have painted, less during my time as a Senior Lecturer at
ITCarlow, and Associate Lecturer with the Open University.
As a painter I am self-taught. Over the years I have exhibited in group shows,
one 2person show and two solo shows, with a third due to take place in
mid-September, 2017, in the Watergarden's Gallery, Thomastown, Co.Kilkenny. The
exhibition just ended, July 17th, 2017, was at the Copper Museum, Allihies. The
title was Children of Lir. This arose as a consequence of I, on a walk on a
back road of Allihies, cam across a sign pointing to the final landing place of
these mythical children of King Lir. I was enchanted and decided instantly that
I would love to try my hand at painting around that event. As a legend it is
about a wicked step-mother, but I think it is more about Transformation. It
seems to me that even the selection of three (3) periods of banishment is
significant in that the total number adds up to nine. When I checked on the
numerology sites I learned that 9 is the number which signifies 'Enlightenment'
, whatever that means.
Group Shows
Ealing Art club; Terenure College, Dublin
Steps Gallery, Rathfarnam, Dublin
Barrow Valley Painters, Carlow
Eigse Open, Carlow
Art Bank, Bunclody
Railings, St. Stephen's Green
Two (2) person show in Graiguenamanagh Library, with Frances Hopkinson.
Solo Shows:
Civic Centre, Tullow, Co. Carlow, 2010
Allihies Museum, West Cork, 2016
Allihies Museum, West Cork, 2017
Autumn 2017, Watergarden's Gallery, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.
