Lissadell House

Artist Terence P Flanagan (b. 1929 - d. 2011)

Date1971

MediumWatercolour on paper

Dimensions57.5 x 76 cm

ClassificationsWatercolours

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Terence P. Flanagan (the Artist) in memory of Lady Mary Gore-Booth, 1971. © The Estate of Terence P. Flanagan.

Object number1321

Description'Lissadell House' portrays the Regency home of the Gore-Booths, near the sea at Lissadell, Co. Sligo. The house had strong links with the Irish literary revival and with Irish nationalism through such figures as Countess Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge. Brought up near its demesne, T. P. Flanagan is convinced that it was there that much of his imagination was fostered.

Of the Lissadell series the artist has explained: 'I have tried to record impressions of light in the western sky or trapped and coloured in the dark avenues. I have also tried to evoke the sound of the sea and possibly something of its presence, unseen, but somehow reflected in the air. I have used the shapes, spaces and colours that seemed to me essential to what I was trying to say'. ('Two Ulster Painters', Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition. Catalogue with artist's notes).

(Extract from 'Images and Insights', Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1993, p. 142)

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