Robert Ryan - Artist Info

About Robert Ryan

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    Robert Ryan (b.1963)

    Born in Limerick, Robert Ryan graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1987. He worked in Copenhagen and London before returning to Ireland in 1994.

    Referencing post-modern, his work borrows qualities from European old masters, using traditional characteristics in a modern context. Robert Ryan paints landscape, but his work cannot be described as 'landscape painting'.

    "Allegorical concepts such as the infinity of space and time, solitude, vulnerability, fragility and the cycle of life are explored in his paintings and drawings in which a generic four-legged creature is central. This creature inhabits another world, a universal landscape."

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