WELCOME .
Fergus Smith, Turmoil, 2019, 2020 , oil on canvas, 53 x 79cm.
Photographed at the Rua Red Winter Open Exhibition 2019/ 2020 ,Group Show 20 December , 2019 – 24 January 2020
Fergus Smith, Soft Day, 2017 ,oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm.
Purchased by the Office of Public Works, June 20th, 2017, for the Irish State Art Collection .Photographed at the O P W cross border exhibition Rathfarnham Castle.
Fergus Smith, Emigrant, 2017,oil on canvas, 72 x 82 cm.
Photographed at the 2017 Degree Show ,NCAD , a sellout show on the opening night with further sales in the pursuing week.
Purchased June 21, 2017,by the Department of Foreign Affairs for their International State Art Collection , and selected for the Irish Ambassador’s residence in London.
Ode to painting
Working On It
Painting pouring brushes knives
Sponges rags whatever applies
Removing paint to redo
Linking layers the painting through,
Underpainting part exposed
Like memories partly decomposed
Another link to time or place
An eroded shoreline or mountain space
what was what is what might have been
within the paintings
Is the theme.
