25.50 by 37.75in. (64.8 by 95.9cm)

Title: CROWSCAPE, 1987
Note: 1990 was the year in which Tony and Jane O'Malley returned to Ireland to live permanently near the artist's birthplace in Callan, County Kilkenny. From 1973 to 1987 the couple had travelled to Jane's family home in the Bahamas working there during the winter months. The Caribbean light and colours had an enormous impact on the artist's palette and the radically different environment charged his canvases with a buoyancy and lightness which extended to a renewed interpretation of both his Irish landscapes and those of the Canary Islands and Scilly Isles. The Bahamian works were also hugely important in terms of his career development and opened doors to commercial galleries in Ireland and abroad. In 1989 the artist was made an Honorary member of the RHA and won the Guardian Art Critic's award for painting, Newlyn Contemporaries Exhibition, Newlyn Society of Artists as well as the Irish American Cultural Award for painting and he became a member of Aosdána in 1990. The Taylor Gallery exhibition, including the present example, comprised 65 works from 1983 to 1990 inclusive.

oil on board

signed with initials lower right; signed in Irish, titled, dated and with artist's archival number [1337] on reverse; with Taylor Galleries exhibition label also on reverse