WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 27th September 2021 at 6pm

102 82 Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WATEREDGE XIV, 2006 acrylic on paper signed and dated lower right; with Rubicon Gallery label on reverse 28 by 36in. (71.1 by 91.4cm) Frame Dimensions: 36 by 43.5in. (91.4 by 110.5cm) Excellent condition. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection In the mid-1990s Donald Teskey spent a period as artist in residence at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. The experience awakened an interest in the elemental forces that shape Ireland’s coastline - an interest which continues to occupy the artist to this day. Teskey has since worked at several locations in Connemara, Mayo andWest Cork, sketching and producing watercolour studies, which he then revisits in the studio to paint large scale oils on paper and canvas. Wielding a pair of plasterer’s trowels - one used as a palette and the other as a palette knife - Teskey applies his paint in thick, tactile layers, which are then scraped back and repainted in a slow, deliberative process. These powerful seascapes fuse elements of recognisable locations with passages of all but abstract paint work. Teskey’s sea paintings were featured in a group show, ‘H2O’, held in 2004 at the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, and in a solo exhibition, ‘Tidal Narratives’, held in 2005 at the Limerick City Gallery of Art. From then to date Teskey has continued to create these great depictions of the sea crashing into land and to include them in major exhibitions at NGI, IMMA and The Hunt Museum. €20,000-€30,000 (£17,090-£25,640 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot82