Hughie O'Donoghue, Irish/British b.1953- The Owl Run, 2013; oil on...

Hughie O'Donoghue, Irish/British b.1953- The Owl Run, 2013; oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 2013 on the reverse,150 x 203cm (unframed)(ARR) Provenance: Purchased from Marlborough Fine Art by the current owner in 2013 Note: This work is part of a major series by the British artist Hughie O’Donoghue, 'Owl Run', which was exhibited at Marlborough Fine Arts in 2013, and which considers the concept of place, time, and memory. Indeed, the interconnectedness of the three has been a central preoccupation of the artist throughout his career. In this series, O’Donoghue uses the painted image to explore the individual’s connection with the past, and the places associated with it. He does this through his depictions of ‘Owl Run’, the place in Ireland where his mother grew up and which O’Donoghue himself visited regularly as a child. It is through the application of broad swathes of bold pigments that O’Donoghue seeks to convey the indelible impressions which familiar places make on an individual, particularly in childhood, and the powerful emotions which these remembered places continue to evoke throughout our lives.