ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> <!-- CHANGE THE NEXT THREE LINES --> <title>The Boathouse Gallery</title> <meta name="Description" content="Place your website description in this area. This is read by some search engines."> <meta name="KeyWords" content="add, your, keywords and phrases in this area, separated, by, commas, this, is read by only a, few search, engines"> <!-- CHANGE THE ABOVE THREE LINES --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Copyright" content="Allwebco Design Corporation http://allwebcodesign.com/"> <link rel="StyleSheet" href="coolstyle.css" type="text/css"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="pop-closeup.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="javascripts.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <!-- START PAGE TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="center" valign="top"> <!-- LOGO AND MENU --> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="header.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script> <!-- SHADOW TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="shadow"><tr><td> <img src="picts/spacer.gif" width="100" height="5" border="0" alt="Image"><br> </td></tr></table> <!-- SHADOW TABLE --> <!-- SPLIT TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="sidebarwidth"> <br><br><br> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="sidebar.js"></script> <br> </td><td align="center" valign="top"> <br><br><br> <!-- CONTENT TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0" width="450"> <tr><td align="left" valign="top" class="just"> <span class="title">John Hurley</span><br><br> John s painting focuses on those elemental forces that shift and shape the landscape. Water whipped and whirled by the wind cascades down the barren mountain slopes. <br> <br> A skeletal tree clings stubbornly to a rock face. Sand and debris are scattered by breakers and beached on the shore while reed grasses strain and bend on desperate dunes. <br> <br>  Always a howling wind, a threatening storm cloud. Chaotic moments captured in freeze frame. There is a sense of earthiness, of elemental forces at work permeating his collection of paintings <br> <br> John is concerned with the interaction of the land and the elements, evoking a sense of the land rather than topographical description of the landscape. Picture titles serve to further enhance this feeling. Titles such as - Scattered Seeds - Copper Bog - Wild Place - and Atlantic Swell. <br> <br> John graduated from Ireland s National College of Art and Design in 1984. In the intervening years he has exhibited widely and has had numerous successful solo shows. Since moving to Kerry in 1995 his work has blossomed and his intuitive, abstract impasto style has become much sought after. His eleventh One-Man Show in 2003 at Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry was opened by Ireland s Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism  John O Donoghue TD. <br> <br> John is represented in many public, corporate and private collections in Ireland and overseas, notably in the collections of AIB Group, Citibank, IFX Power, Noelle Campbell Sharp, Tralee, The Brehan Hotel, Killarney and John O Donoghue TD among others. <br> <br> </td><td width="5"> <img src="picts/spacer.gif" height="10" width="5" alt="image"><br> </td></tr></table> <!-- END CONTENT TABLE --> </td><td valign="top" width="40"> <!-- SPLIT TABLE --> <img src="picts/spacer.gif" border="0" width="20" height="30" alt="image"><br> </td></tr></table> <!-- SPLIT TABLE --> <br> <!-- COPYRIGHT FOOTER --> <span class ="footer"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="footer.js"></script> </span> <!-- COPYRIGHT FOOTER --> </td></tr></table> <!-- END PAGE TABLE--> </body> </html>