Cavanacor Gallery

 

‘Transient Light’ Solo Exhibition by Eddie O’Kane. 

Drawing and Painting.  29 September – 2 November 2002.

Eddie O'Kane studied Fine Art/Painting at the College of Art in Belfast. He also completed postgraduate study in Art and Design at University of Ulster. O'Kane has exhibited extensively, with venues including the McClelland Gallery and Queens University, Belfast, the Orchard Gallery and the Gordon Gallery, Derry and the United States Embassy in Dublin. He has exhibited a number of times in the Oireachtas, Royal Ulster Academy exhibitions, and Iontas . His work is featured in many private and public collections including the Office of Public Works, Donegal County Council, Hillsborough Castle and the Derek Hill Collection.

For almost thirty years Eddie O'Kane has been concerned with a sense of place and the in temporal quality of that place. The watercolour paintings produced during this period have been centred on O'Kane's response to traditional themes, undertaken in the genre of garden and landscape painting. O'Kane's main concern is the timeless form of nature within the landscape. Increasingly concerns have centred on the universality of painterly themes such as 'the path' and 'the gate'. He conveys the permanence of the landscape and the transience of light.

He will also exhibit his collection of illustrations, commissioned recently for the renowned Pushkin Awards Trust Teachers' Anthology 'Snow in Summer.'