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Maeve Gallagher
“Somewhere in Galway there is a wedding album I bound upside down. Lovely gold tooling on the spine, and the happy couple opened it to find themselves standing on their heads. They were very gracious about it. I like to think that's why I went over to watercolour, where nobody can say for certain which way up a Connemara fog is meant to go. A stone wall helps, usually.”
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About Maeve
Maeve Gallagher is a painter based in Galway, Ireland, who came to watercolor after years as a bookbinder. She studied Fine Art at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, but it was the bindery that shaped her habits: patience with paper, respect for a well-made edge, and a cheerful acceptance of mistakes. She still tells the story of a wedding album she once bound upside down, gold tooling and all, for a very gracious couple. Watercolor, she jokes, suits her because nobody can say for certain which way up a Connemara fog is meant to go.
Gallagher paints on handmade, deckle-edged rag paper, letting washes bloom and drift in an expressive style that favors mood over precise detail. Her subjects come from the west of Ireland: soft gray mists rolling over open land, damp light, and the old stone walls that give a misty scene its sense of place, and its right way up. On canvas, these quiet, atmospheric pieces bring a calm, airy feel to bedrooms, reading corners, living rooms, and entryways, anywhere you want a breath of the Irish countryside. Below are Gallagher’s canvases in our shop, ready to hang.
- Based in
- Galway, Ireland
- Style
- Watercolor, Expressionism
- Fun fact
- Leaves sheets outside under the eaves for a minute so real drizzle can add its own blooms.
