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Saturday 7 February 2009

By Hugh G. Rice

I will soon be going to live and paint in my homeland, N. Ireland, for a few months and as always I will find it hard for awhile to paint in a new context.

Here on the Canadian Prairie I paint large canvases, and use lots of paint to capture the big skies and the flatness of the prairie landscape. My paintings are full of colour and movement.

But in Ireland, my work is small and and wet and the colours delicate. How else to capture the Glens of Antrim - the hills, and mountains, the seaside headlands of an early Irish Spring.

People often remark - when I show both my Irish and Canadian work together- that I adopt a new style when I cross the Atlantic ocean. And they are right. I can no more paint a Canadian prairie landscape in Ireland than an Irish glen in Winnipeg.

But the one thing that all my work has in common is my fascination with the application of paint and experimentation with colour.

Wish me luck on this new adventure. I hope to add another gallery in N. Ireland to show my work. And I look forward to walking the glens and painting in my Ballycastle studio.

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