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John Eagle CV Award Winning Artist
2017
Beara Arts Festival, Beara Communtuy School Performed a demonstartion of how I paint an oil Exhibited 2 oils, one of them was raffled for €615 and all money donated to Cancer Connect One of my oils was used on the advertising poster see above 2016 Exhibited oils at Craft Shop, Bantry 2015 Exhibited at the Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere
Exhibited at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen June 20th to July 11th 2014 Exhibited a couple of oils at The Sarah Walker Gallery Exhibited at Ardgroom Post Office Exhibited at The Beara Gallery in Lauragh Brought out a series of greeting cards of oil paintings Exhibited at the Eyeries Festival July 2013 My exhibition 'Beara Impressions' opened at the Allihies Copper Mines Museum July 26th, 15 oil paintings, 13 of them painted this year Exhibited 2 oils at the Eyeries Family Festival June 2013 Exhibited 2 oil paintings at the Allihies Language School building for the Summer show. Did this in 2012 as well May 2013 Exhibited two oil paintings at The Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan April 2013
Two of my pictures appeared in the Collins Press book 'Ireland's Civil Engineering Heritage' published by The Collins Press who published my own lighthouse book in 2010. The picture are of the Fastnet Lighthouse and the Mizen Bridge March 2013
July 2012 Exhibited at the Eyeries Festival
April 2012
My 2 entries for Beara Arts 2012 hanging in the Millcove Gallery, Castletownbere March 2012
I have produced these two postcards of oil paintings I have done this year, click here to buy
'After the Storm' Gave the above oil to an auction held at the Sheen Falls Hotel to raise money for a cookery event to be held in Kenmare in July 2012 June 15th showed at the first ever Allihies Arts Festival at the old National School opposite the post office in Allihies
'Sleeping it off' left and 'Calm Before the Storm' on show at the Allihies Arts Festival
Showed work at the Bantry Art Gallery December 2012
2011
September 2011: I flew to the States to attend the opening of my 'Storms' exhibition at the Eventide Gallery in Essex, Massachusetts. The above picture shows me at the gallery with the owner Teri Canelle on the left and harpist BJ Wayne who played at the opening. The show opened October 8th. As well as showing 12 new oil paintings, I also performed a slide show of my Irish lighthouse photography and signed copies of my Collins Press book 'Ireland's Lighthouses ~ A photo essay by John Eagle'
October 8th. Exhibited 12 oil paintings at The Eventide Gallery in Essex, MA, USA. ‘Storms and Irish Lighthouses’ in which I also performed a slide show and signed copies of my Collins Press book ‘Ireland’s :Lighthouses ~ A Photo Essay by John Eagle’ Organised a two week tour of lighthouses round the Irish coastline, visited several offshore lighthouses July: Exhibited oils at the Eyeries Family Festival, on show in the windows of the village July: Exhibited 3 oils at the opening of the Eventide Gallery in Essex, Massachusettes, USA July 2nd. May: Had a small speaking role in a Japanese movie called Tamatama by director Mayomi, which was partly filmed at my house and in my art studio. Invited to exhibit oils at the Helen Joyce Gallery in Kenmare Beara Arts Show ~ Millcove Gallery
'Morning Mist' hanging at the show, where it won the prestigious Sarah Walker Award Organised a 6 day Irish Lighthouse tour for a group of Britons and Americans, taking them round the coast from County Clare to Cork with visits to Skellig Michael, Bull Rock, Mizen and Fastnet and others for them to photograph 2010 Submitted 3 oil paintings for the Visual Arts - SmallART-Exhibition at the Carnegie Hall Arts centre in Kenmare July 17th to mid September Book 'Ireland's Lighthouses - A Photo Essay by John Eagle' launched officially at Kinsale Arts Week, July 15th in the Kinsale Bookshop In June re-worked 7 lighthouse postcards. Shot with modern camera gear they look so much better to the 1995 postcards they replace New book 'Ireland's Lighthouses - A Photo Essay by John Eagle was published by the Collins Press in May 2009
Submitted a couple of hand painted items to hang on the Christmas Tree at the Sarah Walker Gallery in Castletownbere to raise money for Beara Co.Action. Above is a picture he took of the tree using a zoom lens Wrote a new book 'Ireland's Lighthouses A Photo Essay by John Eagle' to be published by Collins Press Spring 2010 Submitted oil painting images to the Agora Gallery in New York for a competition Had an exhibition of oil paintings at the Old Market House Art Gallery in Dungarvan entitled 'In Search of Little People' July 8 to August Organised a 6 day Irish Lighthouse tour for a group of Americans, taking them to Skellig Michael, Bull Rock, Mizen and Fastnet and others for them to photograph 2008 August Worked as an extra in the Neil Jordan movie 'Ondine' July Exhibition oils and framed prints at the Lighthouse Show at the Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan March Made a pewter scale model of the Fastnet lighthouse. To view the model please click here 2007
Mary Coughlan TD ex Irish Minister for Agriculture and Marine being presented with one of my oils by Peter Carleton of Irish South West at the their offices in Castletownbere October 19th 2007 October Exhibition: The Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan Irish South West Fisheries present 'Almost Home' oil painting to Irish Minister for Agriculture and the Marine Mary Coughlan TD in Castletownbere. September Exhibition: The Miriam Bailey Gallery, Bandon July Made 2000 postcards of my oil 'Bringing Home the Turf' Exhibition: The Peninsula Painters, Kenmare Art Gallery West Cork Arts Celebration, Skibbereen March, Made 2000 postcards of my oil painting 'Returning Home to West Cork' 2006
1999 Published 'An Eagle's View of Irish Lighthouses', launched at The Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire 1993 Exhibited oil at The Beara Arts Show
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