Mullingar-based artist Padraig McCaul will hold a Christmas Exhibition in the Mullingar Park Hotel this Saturday and Sunday, 7 and 8 December from 11am to 6pm each day.
Featuring new original oil paintings, limited edition prints, wax hurricane lanterns and art cards, this will be Padraig’s third time exhibiting in the hotel since he moved to Mullingar from Achill with his family in 2021.
It will be the last show of a very busy year which saw many highlights, including a solo show in July with the Doorway Gallery in Dublin and a very successful exhibition at Art Source in the RDS, Dublin.
In September Padraig was announced as the 2024 winner of the St Patrick’s Mental Health Services’ Favourite Painting Competition.
Favourite Painting is an annual exhibition and competition organised by the art committee at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) in Dublin. Like previous years, this year’s event featured artworks submitted by a number of well-known Irish art galleries. Service users, staff, and visitors are invited to view the exhibition in the Arts Space of St. Patrick’s University Hospital (SPUH) or online, and to vote for their preferred artwork.
His upcoming exhibition is a great opportunity to see why people were so drawn to Padraig’s evocative, colour filled paintings and a perfect opportunity to pick up a limited edition fine art print or maybe even a highly sought after original piece of art.
McCaul’s paintings are inspired by the untamed landscapes and coastline of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way. Achill Island, which is located off coast of Mayo and where Padraig lived for ten years, has had a profound influence on his paintings, which are inspired by the natural beauty and colour of the surrounding landscape.
Using familiar themes of West of Ireland cottages and old farmhouses, and his signature figurative work, each painting is filled with an abundance of colour and life. Outward looking, bright, open landscapes are contrasted with more personal, inward looking figurative pieces.
Padraig is a full time artist who moved in 2021 with his family from Achill Island to Mullingar. He has exhibited internationally in London, Amsterdam, New York and Australia and holds regular exhibitions in Ireland with galleries in Dublin and along the west coast. His work can viewed at www.padraigmccaul.com
