Art Inspired by Megalithic Monuments
Dorothy Fletcher Bentley - Jewellery Artist
Dorothy Fletcher Bentley’s designs are inspired by her upbringing near the Boyne Valley and the captivating
spiral symbols at Newgrange. Dorothy’s work features interlace knotwork and spirals (infinity symbols)
in her jewellery, all carved in wax and cast in sterling silver. By staying with traditional techniques each piece
is unique and you can see and feel her work in the tactile raised relief pattern.
Sally McKenna - Artist
Her search for sacred space through the discovery of the ancient and holy sites
of Ireland takes the form of a journey from the American South West to the
enveloping mists of Ireland's ancient holy places.
Sally McKenna now lives in the 100-year-old Glore Mill in Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo. The old mill was renovated
into the Glore Mill Follain Art Centre to provide a working sculpture studio and display gardens
for Sally to investigate new design and materials.
Margaret Walsh - Textile Artist
Margaret Walsh
is a textile artist living in Co. Meath, Ireland, and her craft is primarily felting. She
lives very close to where the River Boyne flows out to the Irish sea. Her inspirations are
the ancient sacred sites of the Boyne Valley and the seashore. Margaret is often down by the shore,
hoping to find interesting and unusual items of natural beauty that has been washed up by the tide.
Thomas Sheridan - Artist
Thomas Sheridan
is a professional artist living and working in Co. Sligo,
Ireland. His inspiration is drawn from many sources which have touched upon his
life. From the human/spiritual condition within the real and emotional
landscape, to the nature of reality and relationships. An avid reader and
perpetual student; literary and philosophical currents also run heavily throughout much of his work.
Patricia Mc Ateer - Artist
Her work is contemporary visual in acrylic and mixed media and her use of colour is essential,
not only in the paintings but because colour, movement and light remind her that legends
and mythology in different countries lay the foundation for cultures very different
from us and yet at the same time very similar to us on some inner level.
Paintings inspired by Newgrange and Ancient Ireland.
Kathryn Gordon - Artist
Kathryn Gordon
Kathryn Gordon is a multi-disciplinary visual artist living in the Pacific Northwest
of the United States. She has a long and abiding love of megalithic cultures and sites
brought about by her lifelong passions in history, language, art, and research into
the fields of archaeology, anthropology and mythology.
Kathryn Gerhardt - Artist
Kathryn Gerhardt
expresses myself using the symbols that have become her creative
vocabulary. The symbols, found in the sacred mounds of Newgrange, Dowth, Knowth
and Loughcrew hold great power and inspiration for the artist. The energy given
off by the stones and their carved spirals, circles and diamonds resonate deeply in Kathryn.
Tommy Barr - Artist
The early art of Ireland is rich in highly distinctive motifs, central to
this was the tendency to express ideas by symbol.
Artist Tommy Barr calls upon this legacy to produce abstract contemporary icons. Many are easily discernible and Tommy
has not sought to disguise their influences. However, his challenge remains, to retain both the
disorder and the potency of the early icons, to speak in our native tongue and to
express that unique and still curious iconic identity.
Judith Quain - Artist
Judith Quain
is a US based artist, through her husband's work in archaeoastronomy,
she was introduced to an ancient art form that not only celebrated the phenomenon
of light and shadow but also told the story of how they marked the unfolding of time.
It was well known that the people of the Neolithic age made
carved symbols called petroglyphs in stone, but it was only recently that the
mystery of these engravings was revealed to be astronomical.
Winter Solstice at Newgrange - Watercolour by Stephanie Luke