The Chosen One by Paul D’Arcy
Limestone & Bronze
120 x 40 x 40 cm (including plinth)

Available to purchase

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Eamon will be reading online at the Fingal Poetry Festival this coming week from his book to mark the occasion.

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Great day visiting my ancestral home on the River Boyne, County Meath

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Today friends and I visited my ancestral home on the river Boyne in county Meath. A place I have not visited since I was a teenager, when our family use to picnic here.

The castle was built for the D’Arcy family in the mid-15th century and marked the western edge of The Pale.

A drawing of 1795 shows the castle intact, however it was burned during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Now only the two southern towers and some walls remain.

This is the crypt inside the church at Dunmoe Castle with a vaulted roof and then steps down below into the burial chamber.
I found this rather macabre sign of past lives in the grave yard today. A full and intact tooth of a past life. A reminder that life is but fleeting and we are all just passing by.

… and soon we all become ancestors.

A new portrait painting off the easel

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Development of a new painting

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The painting is in honor of the first youth generation to make a global statement that has changed the world. Both in terms of initiating a positive mind shift in social and environmental conscientious which has effected political change. It is the first time this has ever happened. It deserves to be celebrated because of the truly positive global impact it promises.

Sea Change Generation … Oil on Panel  98 x 95 cm  by Paul D’Arcy

Portuguese limestone was chosen because ;  with weathering it will reflect a sand sculpture more and more as the years go by. Also within its surface crushed sea shells and crustaceans are revealed.

The three seals that make up the overall composition are larger than life in order to ‘scale’ into the setting in front of the Floraville park. They also allow the piece to be a ‘living sculpture’, in that the public and in particular children can sit on them.

The surface of the sculpture has been textured to reflect the patterns of the sea, the wave paving in the Floraville Park and celtic design seen in the stone round Newgrange. This was then contrasted with other textures for example the eyes, noses and fish are polished, while the whisker areas have a bush hammer effect.

I wanted an overall surface to be tactile , varied in texture and look handmade as if it had only just been finished …. The ‘kid’ who made it had just popped off to get an ice cream!

The sculpture is entitled ‘Embracing Seals’ ; is dedicated to children and its aim is to evoke the happiness of being beside the sea.

Paul D’Arcy – Artist statement : June 2015

This paintings is part of a series of three, the last one is on the easel as we speak.