Irish Landscape Artist
Dana Winder like many Irish landscape artists draws inspiration from Ireland’s unique countryside. Her landscape paintings are of mountains, bogs, coast and sea. She also likes to paint plants and trees throughout the seasons.
Painting outdoors on location she accurately captures the colours and moods of the scenes she paints. These landscape Paintings develop over many sessions of observation and building layers upon layers of paint. Frequently refining these works later in the studio this two-stage process allows for greater development of her individual vision. So her oil paintings capture more than a particular scene they capture the atmosphere and feeling of that place in time.
Working in oil on linen she uses transparent primers and gesso to allow the natural tones of the linen to appear in places in her finished work. Dana’s known among Irish landscape artists for her striking and sensitive use of colour.
Irish landscape Paintings
Dana’s painting practice sits firmly within the tradition of Irish landscape artists. However, she brings a unique perspective, grounded in direct observation and daily engagement with the land around her. She has focused for many years on capturing the atmosphere and mood of the places she paints. Painting outdoors on location has been an important part of this process giving a vibrancy to these landscape paintings.
The subject matter of her work ranges from scenes of her garden and near her home in Kerry with it’s dramatic landscape, rugged mountains of purple rock, breath-taking coastline along a constantly changing Atlantic Ocean to still bogland rich in native plants and trees.
She is emerging as one of today’s exceptional Irish landscape artists.
Examples of her artwork can be viewed in the Gallery Page https://danawinder.com/gallery-contemporary-landscape-paintings/
Her work can also be seen in her studio in Castlecove, Co Kerry.
The Purcell Gallery, Kenmare, http://www.purcellgallerykenmare.com
The Open Window Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin 6. http://theopenwindowgallery.com
Paintings of Ireland
Landscapes Painted on location in Ireland
