By Sabina Clarke When I met fine artist Catherine Mulligan at her Northern Liberties studio, I was astonished by how strikingly pretty she is—something unexpected based on her mesmeric and unsettling self-portrait featured in the current Women and Biography exhibit at… Continue Reading
By Sabina Clarke Strolling through the spectacular exhibition The Quiet Men, now at Villanova University through October 6th, with artist Brian Whelan, the exhibition’s co-curator and driving force, who, for years, toyed with the concept of a major contemporary London… Continue Reading
By Barrie Maguire Painting is always stressful, but painting Seamus Heaney taught me the meaning of the word. All of my previous Irish Writer paintings, eleven of them, had been of deceased giants of Irish Literature, from Joyce to Yeats,… Continue Reading