Tidepool

egg tempera painting of tidal marsh and Monterey pines exhibited RHA Royal Hibernian Academy

egg tempera, 66 x 122 cm (26"x 48") © Fergus A Ryan, 2014

Exhibited Royal Hibernian Academy 2014

This tidal marsh is just beside my house. The view across the estuary, here at low tide, is visible from my studio. In the distance is an island called 'Ireland's Eye', and to the right, beyond the Monterey Pines, Howth Head, where the poet W B Yeats lived for some time. The marsh seemed to me like 'the waters and the wild' in Yeats' poem 'Stolen Child' set in Sligo. As I stood far out from my house on a gentle January day a buzzard wheeled low overhead and flapping herons and egrets glided cautiously away from the intruder. It was Yeats' magical 'faery land'.

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Private collection

NOTE: LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS

The full edition of this print will be avalable shortly. In the meantime I have a few prints available as below, one in a large size (image size 30 x 56 cms plus margins) and one small size (image size 20 x 37 cms plus margins). I also have the large size avaible framed for local collection by arrangement only (€450).

Order hand-signed print, small €85

Image size 20 x 37 cms

Only 1 in stock

Ireland &

Northern Ireland

All other places

Edition 250

Order hand-signed print, large

€195

Image size 20 x 37 cms

Only 1 in stock

Ireland &

Northern Ireland

All other places

Edition 250

Large Tidepool print available framed, by local arrangement Portmarnock area only

Only 1 in stock  €450

May be viewed in Portmarnock at St Marnock's Bay shopfront at DART station