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Inspiration from Artists Week 81 : SAMUEL JOHN PEPLOE and JOHN COONEY

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Denise Cat

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It is really interesting to look at. I like all the contrast in the paintings and think heavy brushstrokes.

Jenny Harris

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John Cooney is an Irish artist and has lived most of his life near Belfast.  He studied at art colleges in both Belfast and Manchester, achieving a first class honours degree in illustration.  He worked in advertising for many years and then became a primary school teacher. After college he was getting some acclaim for his early paintings, but his career in graphic design meant he no longer had time to paint, and he only started painting again about 7 or 8 years ago.  His painting career then took off and he is now a full-time artist. He finds inspiration in St George’s Market in Belfast and loves to paint ordinary people doing normal things, but tries to make the commonplace interesting.  “I find beauty in the commonplace and try to make it unique. The people partly form the place, but the place also forms the people.  This is what I try to show in my paintings.” He paints in both oil and watercolour and his work has been featured in The Artist and Artist & Illustrator magazines.  

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you for the introduction Jenny , his artwork I’d absolutely brilliant I love the detailing in them all. 

Christine Rogan

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A great selection of photos Jenny from John Cooney, an artist I was unaware of.  I love his quote about people and places and think he really achieves what he sets out to do. His portraits are earthy and full of character, and really detailed.Very envious of how well he paints them.  His landscapes are engaging and give a real feel of the Irish countryside he lives in. The harbour painting you posted is another one I particularly like. Here’s a few more of his paintings 

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John does share work in the gallery https://www.painters-online.co.uk/artists/johncooney/ and has also been exhibited at our TALP Open exhibitions.
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Lewis Cooper

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A master.  A privilege to look at his work.

Tessa Gwynne

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Ah yes I knew I had seen and admired his work before! I’m sure I saw at least one of his paintings at the Mall Galleries a few years ago, and they are so impressive in the flesh, as is usually the case. I will try to add some photos later. iPad seems to be refusing at the mo. If you haven’t followed the link above his painting of the Giants Causeway is ridiculously good!

Jenny Harris

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Thanks, Dawn,  I didn’t realise he had a POL gallery, although he doesn’t appear to have posted very often. I recently came across his work in one of the art magazines - the painting of the man walking home with his dog - and really liked it.

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Fiona Phipps

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Jenny, my apologies for high jacking your next artists spot with some of my favourite Peploe’s, I couldn’t find the thread! Photo quality is rubbish, the images are taken from Google. Even though I like his more colourful work, I particularly like his darker work as well……I think the Lobster still life is my favourite. The others I have chosen really make a point of showing how he loved to the lather the paint on….and he liked his paint dry!

Jenny Harris

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Fiona, yes, the thread often quickly drops off the top section and can be hard to find!  It sits right at the bottom of the list of topics.  Would be useful if it was relocated to the top, think we did ask about it a while ago.  (Thanks for posting some of your Peploe favourites.  I like best the girl in the white dress, has a lovely fresh feel to it.) Another of John Cooney’s -

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Getting a bit confused between all these images - mind you, confusing me is never difficult.  I love the painting of the coastal cottages - 18 up from t'bottom, unless I've miscounted.  If I say some of the others are too photo-real for me, I'm likely to be accused of sour grapes - probably with complete justice.  They are, it does go without saying, brilliant beyond parallel!  Executed with such fantastic skill that you could well just skulk away and say I'm taking my ball back, silly game anyway...   That would be daft, of course.  I do wonder if I possibly could do something like this; but it's daft to play a game of comparisons: if we could all paint like this, and did, we'd all hanker for something else entirely....  Anyway!  This is very fine work, and let us just enjoy it. 
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