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Current Exhibition
Exhibit: Irish Fences Welsh Bridges - Feb. 1 - 25
 Acrylics by Patrick Ford
February 1 - 25, 2012
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, February 12, 1-3pm
The Gallery is located in the Visitor Center
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm
For more information call (617) 489-5050
Irish Fences
The landscape of the Antrim Coast and Glens in Northern Ireland is at times so wild and forbidding as to seem devoid of human life. But there are signs that its human inhabitants are close at hand. There are fences that keep people and their animals in (or out); gates through which they may pass; telephone poles and wires through which they maintain their contacts with others; roads and paths that enable their passages. These paintings develop that theme: essentially, the landscape, rugged and compelling as it is, but bearing the unmistakable signs of human habitation.
Welsh Bridges
Many of these arched masonry bridges of North Wales go back hundreds of years. I see them not just as passages for the infrequent vehicles and pedestrians that cross them but, more importantly, as conduits for the steady flow of waters—streams and rivers rushing through villages and towns from the majestic mountains of Snowdonia National Park. Back to top
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