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">Louise McKeon</span><br><br>  At her best Louise McKeon translates a Japanese delicacy of detail into the Irish vernacular. She notices the small things in a landscape the perfect reflection of a rusty gatepost in a muddy puddle or the contrasting texture of a rotting piece of wood perched on an old stone wall. But she can also handle bigger things, notably maritime skies which are usually grey and stormy, caught at that moment when the sun shines on the foreground as a storm approaches from behind. Her work is remarkable for its spontaneity and its unsentimental celebration of the visual pleasures of this part of the world - Alannah Hopkin, The Sunday Times <br /> <br /> Louise was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and grew up in Dublin. She nenefitted from a north/south education attending schools in Fermanagh and Dublin. She began her art career at The Art College, Belfast and following this, entered The National College of Art and Design in Dublin, graduating in Graphic Design while specializing in illustration. <br /> <br /> On moving to Japan with her husband, (1987  1990) Louise started to paint full-time. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland and Japan and to-date has held numerous sell-out one woman shows. Group exhibitions include the Kansai International Show, Kobe, Japan and the Japan Exhibition at the Crawford Gallery, Cork. <br /> <br /> Louise is a painter; she is not attached to any particular school, deriving ideas, tastes and styles from various sources. She paints in a mixed medium of watercolour, acrylic and gouache on a variety of hand-made papers, but in particular Japanese handmade paper called  Washi . Each piece of paper has its own unique character which dictates the painting technique and subject matter, with the result that some of the paintings are detailed while others work more specifically with the colour and texture of the paper. Her painting is primarily influenced by the Irish countryside and its rich colour and people. <br /> <br /> Her work is held in public and private collections. Louise has undertaken commissions for RTE and the Irish Food Writers Guild. <br /> <br /> For more than 20 years, Louise has been an avid teacher of art to children and adults alike. <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>