Featured Artist - Alan Healy
Our 2011 featured artist Alan Healy, a graduate of Sydney College of the Arts is an Irish/Australian visual artist and musician.
As a painter, musician and sculptor he says he is influenced as much by writers as by other artists. “My work has many parallels with literature, in particular, Irish literature.”
His current cow paintings and sculptures stem partly from the beginning of James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and a section of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, were the dying Bergotte views a section of Vermeer’s View of Delft, in particular, a yellow wall, to the work of Casper David Friedrich who influenced Samuel Beckett's imagery in a big way.
Alan tells us "The cow has always appealed to me as a wonderfully peaceful creature; I can sit and paint in a field with cows and drift away into a creative meditative state in their company."
His work is exhibited widely throughout Australia and represented in private collections all over the world.
As a painter, musician and sculptor he says he is influenced as much by writers as by other artists. “My work has many parallels with literature, in particular, Irish literature.”
His current cow paintings and sculptures stem partly from the beginning of James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and a section of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, were the dying Bergotte views a section of Vermeer’s View of Delft, in particular, a yellow wall, to the work of Casper David Friedrich who influenced Samuel Beckett's imagery in a big way.
Alan tells us "The cow has always appealed to me as a wonderfully peaceful creature; I can sit and paint in a field with cows and drift away into a creative meditative state in their company."
His work is exhibited widely throughout Australia and represented in private collections all over the world.
Clouds over fields of may
Cows Queue for moon jump
Reflecting
Nightwatch 8
