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Dark vintage painting of a woman in profile wearing a black hat and red-and-white clothing

Gandon Profile #29, 2020
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“Lawlor is one of the great colourists, and has a remarkable ability to brighten the tones of his scenes as the shadows gather and the air grows sombre. Everything here, even in his most nearly abstract images, takes place against, or even in the midst of, a great, depthless darkness, so that at the height of the day we are in a kind of luminous night—the lambent night of Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden.”


– The Liminal World - John Banville - Introduction to Gandon Profile #29 EXTRACT

Abstract impressionist painting of a sunlit forest reflected in dark water, with vivid red, orange, green, and blue brushstrokes

Remnants, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin 2017
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“Copying from the Old Masters was, for hundreds of years, and still is for many people, part of a painters apprenticeship. In Remnants, Stephen Lawlor takes on that idea with a twist. He looks to works by three great Venetian painters: Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, and makes not direct copies but reworkings or variations on sections of, or complete, compositions…”


– Remnants Catalogue text