Irish artist: George Callaghan at Red Rag Gallery

Today’s featured Irish Artist at the Red Rag Gallery is George Callaghan

George Callaghan was born in County Antrim, N.Ireland in 1941, attending Carrs Glen Primary School up the Old Park Road. At the age of four George’s family immigrated to South Africa where he was educated in the ways of apartheid. He also became the Western Province Boxing Champion Gnat weight division.

At the age of 14 the impending death of his Grandfather forced the family to return to Belfast. George attended Ashfield Secondary Imtermediate. He left school at 15 to work at Nicholson and Bass printers and box makers, as an apprentice Commercial Artist. A year later he commenced studying Art at the Belfast College of Art on a Scholarship. George started work in Dublin as a junior designer with Janus Advertising Agency and 8 months later moved to Kennys Advertising Agency as a senior designer.

George Callaghan then moved to London as a designer and eight months later he immigrated to Sydney, Australia. For a year he worked as a senior designer at McCann Erickson then moved to Leo Burnetts where he stayed for the next 11 years as an Art Director.

Today George Callaghan is an artist with an International reputation and following. This is not only for his contemporary paintings, but also for his harp music. George is a leading exponent of the Celtic Harp and his recordings of harp music include compact discs featuring Traditional Airs, and Rhyme and Reason along with several cassettes.

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British art: artist Andrew Macara at Red Rag Gallery

Andrew Macara is today’s featured British Artist at the Red Rag Gallery.

Andrew Macara was born in Derbyshire in 1944. He is a member of the New English Art Club along with fellow members David Cobley, Charles Hardaker, Ken Howard, Karolina Larusdottir and William Selby. His paintings also regularly feature at the Royal British Artists (RBA) London art exhibitions. Other Red Rag members of the RBA include: Stephen Brown and Steven Outram. Macara contemporary paintings are also regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in their Summer Exhibitions.

Andrew Macara travels extensively gathering images for paintings from around the world. But his native Derbyshire continues to feature in many paintings. Elvaston Castle in the Derbyshire Peak District is the setting for today’s featured art work. This is a charming snow scene with children throwing snowballs at one another in front of a stand of trees lit by low winter sunlight. Another character perhaps the artist himself is seen in shadow in the foreground.

Andrew Macara’s subjects vary but his painting of snow scenes is distinctive because of his treatment of light and shade. Long blue-grey shadows capture a snow scene perfectly. He looks for colour and movement and manages to convey a sense of life in his paintings. ‘I believe in becoming involved and participating in the hustle and bustle of life. It is painting this visual experience that interests me’.

Paintings by Andrew Macara are available from Red Rag British Art Gallery together with Andrew Macara Limited Edition Prints .

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Irish art: artist Hugh O'Rourke at Red Rag Gallery

Today’s featured Irish Artist at the Red Rag Gallery is Hugh O’Rourke

Aodh Sean O'Ruairc (Hugh Sean O'Rourke) is an art graduate of the famous Glasgow School of Art. As a student Sean won the prestigious MacLaine-Watters Medal at the Royal Scottish Academy's Student Competition in 1977 and in 1978 won First Prize in the Watercolour section in the John and Mabel Craig Bequest Fund Competition at Glasgow School of Art.

Hugh Sean O'Rourke art work captures the tranquility and natural beauty of remote Scottish and Irish landscapes, with indications of man's involvement in the vistas. His empathy with the Connemara and Western Highlands is very evident in his paintings. A colourist at heart, Sean’s imaginative use of colour helps draw the viewer into the depths of the composition.

Hugh O’Rourke’s Modern Art is available from the Red Rag Bath Art Gallery

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Katty McMurray at Bath Art Gallery

Today we are featuring the art works of a new Modern British Artist at Red Rag Bath Art Gallery . Her name is Katty McMurray and she is a young artist who was in London and studied at the Chelsea School of Art.

Always a keen traveler, Katty McMurray has been inspired to create her contemporary paintings by visiting places throughout the world. While away on location Katty spends her time sketching, and on returning to her art studio, uses her sketches as a base for her larger paintings in oil on canvas.

Today Katty McMurray has established herself as a successful British artist who produces paintings in a distinctive naïve style. For further information contact the Red Rag Gallery in Bath.

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Anji Allen At Red Rag Bath Art Gallery

Today's featured work is from artist Anji Allen. Anji Allen has developed a specific and recognisable style of contemporary art. Anji builds her art works with layer upon layer of paint producing very textural paintings which are reworked and scraped back as she marks and draws lines into the paint. Paintings are limited calm neutral colours of pale green, dark brown, creams and golds

Anji Allen’s paintings are a revelation and celebration of the day to day. Familiar items such as scrubbed table top, milk jugs and tea cups are elevated and given a rarity value in Anji’s paintings with her careful use of space and texture.

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