Eileen and Neal are based in the border area of Glaslough County Monaghan , they met at the Tyrone Guthrie Art Centre in 1991. This is

their first exhibition together since 2010. They have their studios in Monaghan and on Coney Island Sligo where Eileen has her ancestral

home.

While Eileen and Neal’s paintings are thematically quite disparate, there are some underlying connections. A sense of colour, texture and

an awareness of painterly tradition. The language of mark making is explored and a sense of time and space conveyed.

EILEEN FERGUSON

The theme of social, political, cultural landscape is a basis for Eileen’s creative practice. Her narrative works incorporate landscape but are

primarily concerned with a sense of place, memory and history. Covid allowed Eileen to focus on this idea of isolation, occupation,

land, borders and walls. The imagery was collected during Eileen’s stay in the Occuppied territories Palestine in 2019. Eileen was a volounteer

on the Olive Tree Campaign

NEAL GREIG

Outstanding, closely observed landscapes that maintain a spontaneous, energised engagement with the atmospherics of each location, be it the

turbulent waters along the Northwest coastline or the rivers and lakes of Fermanagh and Monaghan. Greig is always there in the moment, and

conveys the experience directly.