At Geraldine MacDonald’s exhibition were: 1. Beatrice Kelleher and Brian Walsh; 2. Hazel Williams and Brian Barnes; 3. Geraldine MacDonald and Andrew Rudd.
Dublin born artist Geraldine MacDonald welcomed friends and well wishers to the opening of her latest exhibition “Of Night and Light and the Half Light” at a private gallery on Fitzwilliam Street recently. With a previous career in music and song writing Geraldine has been a full time painter working from her studio in Dublin City Centre for over a decade.
In this exhibition she presents a selection of paintings and sculpture that are both figurative and abstract embodying a sense of the dream. In her paintings colour is a vital and informing energy and it is through this medium that she strives to explore and develop the inner core of her work. Geraldine creates a freshness of colour often using cerulean blues, naples yellow, sap green, pinks, violets, and textured black giving a luminosity and depth to her work. The colour red was also prominent among her works with the eponymous sold sticker adorning many.
Her experience of nature was awakened while living and growing up in Howth at a time when children were free to explore and discover its natural and unspoilt beauty. Her time spent in the south of Spain, America, India and North Africa reopened her eyes to light and colour.
Art curator Tony Strickland, TV chef Andrew Rudd, Leanne de Cerbo of Social & Personal, publicist Sinead Ryan and RTE’s Brian Walsh were among the guests.
