# basilblackshaw painting irishartist art horsepainting

'Storm' by An amazing and sensitive painting of the lurcher he bred and owned.
His ability to capture the soul and movement of the animals he painted was extraordinary.

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2018-07-04

'Headland III' 1992 by
Oil on canvas
51 x 61cm.
John Hewitt termed his “characteristic intensity”, an intensity deriving from and “within the circle of his experience”. It is this immediacy that comes through strongly in his best work.

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2018-05-10

'Big Brown Dog' 1988 by
Oil on canvas, 48 x 60in (121 x 152cm).
collection.

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2018-03-10

'Storm' by An amazing and sensitive painting of the lurcher he bred and owned.
His ability to capture the soul and movement of the animals he painted was extraordinary.

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2018-03-06

'Portrait of Jude'1989 by Jude Stephens was Basil's friend and model for more that thirty years. “He was a man who found wonder in ordinary things and transformed them into something extraordinary that will live on,” said Ms Stephens.

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2018-02-03

'Night Rider' by "Certainly nobody else alive could have imagined these works, let alone painted them. The large Night Rider of 2001 (5 x 7ft)is one of the high-points of his output and shows his flair for using a somewhat forgotten popular song". Brian Fallon.

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2017-11-25