Boomtown

A series of paintings that capture Ireland’s mood after the banking crisis. Together, they create a surreal satire of a turbulent period in Irish history.

Masquerade

“I would but find what’s there to find, love or deceit.  It was the mask engaged your mind, and after set your heart to beat, not what’s behind.”

– William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer.

Nautica

A series of paintings depicting Dublin Port and the now defunct dry docks

Horizons

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it we go nowhere.” 
– Carl Sagan, American Scientist and Writer  

Portraits & Figures

Since 1981, I’ve undertaken numerous portrait commissions and in 2019 I was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize hosted by the National Gallery of Ireland for my painting of RTÉ broadcaster Joe Duffy.  If you wish to enquire about having a portrait painted, or perhaps something else, please contact me.
Brian McCarthy Art Studio

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