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Oil paintings of Beara landscapes by John Eagle

I paint from the heart, working my brush the way my mood takes me. I will often spend hours, if not days developing my paintings to get them the way I want them to be. I rarely look at pictures, as I paint from memory. I like to paint dark in order to make the important subject matter come alive. My oils come alive when the spotlights touch them and then you come into the world I have created for you

My work can be viewed at Cleo Gallery, Kenmare and The Bantry Craft Shop, Glengarriff Road, Bantry, Co. Cork.

'Drying the clothes in Beara'

20x8 inches

'Passing Storm'

oil on canvas 16x12 inches

Mick standing outside his door checking on the sheep after the deluge

Prints available

'Seamus bringing the sheep home for shearing'

oil on canvas 20x12 inches

'Walking with Sheep'

Helen Theresa walking with sheep in the mountains. She loved to escape into the hills of Beara to be on her own with the sheep, wearing her purple gown with its soft velvet hood

(the above oil was painted over 'Beara Valley' at the bottom of the page)

'Seamus bring the sheep down from the mountain with his brother'

20x8 inches

'Gathering the Flock'

20x16 inches

'Washing Line in Beara'

24 x 8 inches

'The Turf Cart' #2

Seamus returning home with cart loaded with turf from the bog

15x12 inches oil on canvas

Prints available from Zenfolio site

'Gathering Sheep' #2

oil on canvas 15x11 inches

Beara Valley #6

16x12 inches

oil on canvas

Returning home in Beara

20x16 inches oil on canvas

'The Hidden Valley'

20x16 inches oil on canvas

Returning home I see the fire is lit, a welcome sight after spending all day rounding sheep in the Beara hills

'After Sheep'

oil on canvas 20x16 inches

Seamus trying to find a way to cross the raging flood to go after his sheep

Seamus bringing the flock home

oil on canvas

24x12 inches

'Going after sheep in the mountains of Beara'

oil on canvas 24x12 inches

'Going after sheep'

oil on canvas 16x12 inches

On show at Cleo Gallery, Kenmare

'Moonlight in the Beara Valley'

In memory of Dick Grogan who passed away on the day I painted this oil, something I didn't learn until after I had painted it. Dick boosted my confidence as a painter, arranging a show for me at the Old Market Arts Centre in Dungarvan 2005. Over ten years he bought several of my oils, often giving me sound advice along the way. He showed my work to people all over Ireland. Rest in peace Dick, a true gentleman

oil on canvas 24x12 inches (60x30cm)

On show at the Bantry Craft Shop

Prints available

'Returning Home'

oil on canvas 16x12 inches

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only

'Seamus moving his sheep to higher ground'

oil on canvas 12x10 inches

On show at the Cleo Gallery, Kenmare

'Seamus gathering his sheep'

oil on canvas 12x10 inches

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only

'Seamus going after the sheep'

oil on canvas 12x10 inches

On show at the Cleo Gallery, Kenmare

'Home in the Valley'

oil on canvas 12x10 inches

Seamus with the fire going great guns in his cobblers cottage. He was darning his socks, looking after himself well after Mary past away earlier in the year. His Dash his black and white collie, ever faithful, he had no means to be downhearted, and sure he talked to all his neighbours at Mass when after he did the weekly shopping

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only

'Spring in the Valley'

After a harsh winter the valley is getting some colour back

oil on canvas 8x8 inches

Prints available

'Stoking the fire'

20x16 inch oil on canvas

Seamus is stoking up his turf burning range to heat the house for the coming night

'After Sheep'

oil on canvas 20x16 inches

prints available

'Back of the Glen'

20x28 inches oil on canvas

'Moonlight in a Beara Valley'

12x12 inches oil on canvas

'Waiting'

oil on canvas

Seamus waiting at the foot of his lane for a lift into town

On display Cleo Gallery, Kenmare

'Walk in the Moonlight'

oil on canvas

20x8 inches

I am doing a new series of oil paintings I'm calling 'minimalistic colour' concentrating on black, grey and white adding touches oif colour

'Cave'

'After the Rain'

oil on canvas

'Outpouring'

oil on canvas

After several days of rain the mountains had to empty themselves

8x32 inches

Painted over, this oil no longer exists as of 26.8.17

The Pocket

from the top of the waterfall looking down into the pocket

16x12 inches oil on canvas

Postcard of this oil painting available

'River in Flood'

16x12 inches

No rain for weeks and then suddenly the heavens opened and there was water everywhere

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only

'Beara Hills'

oil on canvas 32x8 inches

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only

'Daybreak'

Moonlight paintings

When the moon is full in Beara the light is exceptionally beautiful. I have long enjoyed the moonlight here in Beara

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only The oil painting won the prestigious Sarah Walker Award at the Beara Arts Exhibition 2010

'Daybreak #2'

When Daybreak #1 went to be exhibited in a gallery in the States I was distraught and began to miss it terribly, so I painted another to take its place. Now I have both of them in my Beara Light Gallery where you can come and look at them if you so wish, but please make an appointment first. |I suppose there will come a day when they will sell. but until they do I will enjoy them to their full. I mean they are like children to me, I created them with a great deal of love and dedication, and it is often painfully hard for me to part with my work. I only hope they go to good homes

On show at the Beara Light Gallery, can be viewed by appointment only

Beara Flowers

(this is a reworking of the canvas I first did last year. The original is lower down the page)

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Beara Moonlight

20x8 inches

The sun has set, the full moon is lighting the mountains of Beara

'Moonlight'

The Bog in Moonlight

12x12 inches

Moonlight in the Valley

20x16 inches

'Beara Flowers'

20x8 inches

'The Pocket'

16x12 inches

Looking down from the top of the waterfall

'Sunshine in Beara'

18x14 inches

Returning the sheep to the Valley

12x16 inches

'Taking sheep to higher ground'

16x20 inches

'Going for a stroll'

8x24 inches

Last house in the Beara valley lived Seamus with his dog

'Beara Valley'

16x12 inches

detail of house in 'Beara Valley'

Old Green Road

16x12 inches

Summer in the Valley

20x12 inches

painted September 2010

Out of the Heavens

painted August 2010

A Shaft of Light

painted July 2010

Gathering Storm

20x12 inches

painted June 2010

The Kerry Hills

24x12 inches

Break in the Storm

16x12 inches

painted April 14th 2009

'Shelter from the Storm' 24x12 inches  painted: February 2009

'Break in the Clouds' 28x20 inches July, the grass is green but rain falls relentlessly and then suddenly there is a break in the clouds and with any luck we will be able to cut the hay and save it before the next lot of rain comes

'Lull in the Storm'                                                  28x20 inches

'Eyeries'

24x20 inches

'Gathering the Sheep'

28x20 inches

A farmer gathers his sheep high up in the Caha Mountains of Beara

'Shelter from the Storm'

30x20 inches

farmhouse detail

Safe in the protection of the mountains

For those of you keeping count, this is version 3 of this oil, this one done April 6 2008

The Valley

24x20 inches

I always felt protected in the valley, safe from the dangers of the outside World

Price €425 inches

'Summer in the Valley' 20x16 inches

'Gathering Storm'

24x20 inches

'Hidden Valley' 20x16 inches The meandering walk home through the valley, stopping at the bridge to watch the stream babbling underneath