Double Blackbirds with a Greenfinch 11 2010 oil on gesso panel 25 x 35 cm 9.84 x 13.78 in
Retail Value: $2,450 USD €1,750 Euro
CURRENT BID : $600 USD €430 Euro
Michael Canning Michael was born in Limerick in 1971. After studying at the Limerick School of Art and Design he studied in Greece at the School of Fine Arts in Athens 1992-1993 and In 1999, he received his Masters Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.
Michael Canning’s paintings confront certain traditions of northern European painting. Each painting is built up in layers, using oil paint and wax, sometimes incorporating the very substance which the painting depicts, plants, ground earth and ash. The same can be said of his various series of drawings, and in his paintings on birds which also lend an air of mystery and suspense.
As novellist William Ryan has written, “ Michael's painting [itself] seems to stand a little outside time, with elements that are contemporary but others which hark back to the Renaissance and perhaps even earlier. And then maybe there is the fact that the paintings themselves seem not to capture a specific moment of time, but rather to allow time to continue within them - they seem to have a future and a past, as well as the moment in which you catch them”.
Michael has exhibited extensively since 1993. He is represented by Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, and Waterhouse & Dodd, London. Group exhibitions have included EV+A, Eigse International Arts Festival, Carlow, Boyle Arts Festival, Mermaid Arts Centre, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Galway Arts Centre & several RHA Annual exhibitions. His work is included in several private and public collections including: AIB, McCann Erickson, Davy, AXA, Butler Gallery, University of Limerick, OPW, The National Self-Portrait Collection and The Ballinglen Arts Foundation. He won the Hennessy Craig Scholarship in 2003 & the Fergus O'Ryan Memorial Award in 2006, both at the RHA, Dublin.
Forthcoming solo and group exhibitions include Waterhouse & Dodd, London, and Model Arts Centre, Sligo, in May 2014