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146 CHARLES TYRRELL (B.1950)C5.06
Oil on canvas laid on board, 89 x 89cm (35 x 35’’)
Signed and dated 2006 verso
Provenance: With Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Charles Tyrrell was born in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland, in 1950. He studied painting at the National College of Art and
Design in Dublin, graduating in 1974. His work is represented in all major Irish collections and in 1982 he was made
a member of Aosdána.
He lives and works in Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in Co. Cork. This landscape is fundamental to his work as a
painter, remotely sequestered against the wild Atlantic coast. However, the relationship between his environment
and his paintings is not a straightforward case of image and representation. It is rather that Tyrrell’s abstract canvas-
es are imbued with the sense of the landscape’s structures, exploring its fundamental shapes and forms, which take
on a profound simplicity of expression.
Built on a geometric grid, traversing the canvas into sections, a delicate but dynamic equilibrium is played out
between the horizontal and vertical lines. In this manner he explores the more traditional aspects of landscape
painting, boundaries, horizon lines, perspectives. While his work moves beyond resemblance it still focuses on ques-
tions of identifying our landscape through patterns, textures or colours, all of which frame, in the form of a literal and
metaphorical grid, the act of perception.
He has just had a successful exhibition at Taylor Galleries in Dublin.
€ 5,000 - 7,000