McGrane exhibition opening in the Naul
Navan artist Henry McGrane is opening an exhibition with Norman Teeling at the Seamus Ennis Centre in the Naul on Sunday at 3pm.
Henry McGrane attended Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design and began his career in 1989 with Don Bluth Animation. In 1995 he moved to the US to work for 20th Century Fox Animation as a background artists. Henry returned to Ireland in 2000 to establish himself as a traditional artist and has had many successful exhibitions in galleries such as The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Solart Gallery, Corporations like Bank of Ireland. Allied Irish Bank, FBD and The Department of Agriculture collect his art and he has been commissioned to collectors throughout Europe and The United States. Henry’s virtuosity is evident in several genres, including landscapes, still life, figurative genre-scenes and portraiture. But perhaps landscape painting best reflects both his love of nature and his outstanding painterly skills. The latter is exemplified by his mastery of perspective, compositional structure and draughtsmanship - each of which would require its own in-depth article to explain and illustrate.
Norman Teeling is a painter with a romantic impressionist style and a passion for painting ‘En Plein Air’. Born in 1944, it was there where his tutors included Maurice MacDonigal PPRHA, Carey Clarke PPRHA, and John Kelly RHA and where he earned a Degree in Art and his teaching credential from the National College of Art and Design. After twelve years of teaching Art at several Dublin colleges, Norman Teeling took a hiatus from the profession to pursue his creative drive in the Animation industry. Norman’s wide repertoire includes street scenes, interiors, landscapes, portraits, still lives, and historical subjects, all painted with an accomplished proficiency. He has exhibited widely in well known Art Galleries in Ireland and abroad and his monumental ten painting suite, ‘The 1916 Rising’, now hangs on permanent display in the General Post Office, Dublin. Norman has also worked as a background artist on two feature films with Don Bluth Studios and travelled to Norway in 1996 to develop his first animated feature film, Gurin with Foxtail. Additional work has appeared on RTÉ and his creation Fearless Film was produced for Children’s Television, Dublin.