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Artist: Donald Teskey (b.1956) Title: Turn in the Weather Signature: signed 'Teskey' lower right Medium: acrylic on paper Size: 76 x 105cm (29.9 x 41.3in) Framed Size: 97 x 126cm (38.2 x 49.6in) Provenance: Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin where purchased by the present owner Exhibited: The Hunt Museum Limerick 'Weather Gauge', December 2016 - February 2017 (illustrated in exhibition catologue); Royal Hiberian Academy, Dublin, May - August 2017 no.507; The Hunt Museum Limerick, 'Wild Atlantic Way: Irish Life and Landscape' July - October 2021 (illustraded on p.49 of the exhibition catologue) a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Stays at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo, have been central in the shift in focus of Donald Teskey's work from the urban to the rural or, in the case of the huge, daunting coastline extending west from Ballycastle, the extreme rural. His first painting excursions to the Wes... Read more Donald Teskey Lot 17 - 'Turn in the Weather' Estimate: €20,000 - €30,000 Stays at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo, have been central in the shift in focus of Donald Teskey's work from the urban to the rural or, in the case of the huge, daunting coastline extending west from Ballycastle, the extreme rural. His first painting excursions to the West Coast came in the 1990, by which time he had established a solid reputation as, initially, a gifted draughtsman with a unique take on the characteristic of urban space, and then as a strong, gestural painter who treated the urban environment as a landscape. Born in Co Limerick of Palatine descent, Teskey studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. Unusually, by the time he graduated he'd opted for graphic media, producing atmospherically, haunting treatments of windswept, anomalous urban spaces, underscored with a slight unease. Moving to Dublin, he explored the swooping topography of Milltown, then made allegorical compositions centered on daredevil circus acts. When he turned to painting, he delighted in the complexity of Dublin's complex, labyrinthine levels and spaces, alert to the play of light and weather on the architectural and infrastructural fabric. Western harbours and the looming Atlantic presented him with new challenges and, as it worked out, opportunities. He embraced the challenge of the western seaboard's tidal realm, the big weather and quicksilver light. Over time, he found a vigorous painterly means of conveying the optical and physical play of elemental forces involved in the epic cycle of tides and seasons, as in this fine, bracing work from his Hunt Museum exhibition, Weather Gauge. Aidan Dunne, March 2023