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98 Liam O’Neill (b.1954) TURNING FOR HOMEsigned lower right
oil on canvas
76.25 x 102cm (30 x 40in)
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Green Lane Gallery, Dingle (label verso);
Private Collection
€8,000-12,000 (£6,956-10,434)
Liam O’Neill was born in West Kerry in 1954 and is among Ireland’s most talented
contemporary artists. He is a self taught painter who credits his motivation and inspiration from
his love of the west coast. His paintings recapture images of harbours, horse fairs, race meetings,
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are spontaneously applied in a loose expressionistic manner using a palette knife, emphasise
the passionate freedom of the artist’s style. O’Neill has exhibited widely over the past 20 years
including the Royal Hibernian Academy, Oireachtas and the National Portrait Exhibition.