Artist Statement
Peter McSweeney is a contemporary Irish landscape artist from Douglas, Cork. He graduated from Ballyfermot College Dublin in 1999 with a Diploma in Classical Animation. He transitioned from animation to become a landscape painter in oils, steadily honing his craft across years through a quiet and secluded practice, emphasising intensive and patient study to grasp the tactile essence of the natural world in his works. McSweeney has a profound sympathy with unspoilt wild Irish landscapes, excused of artificial structures and traces. Multiple viewers of McSweeney's work have been moved to remark on the tactile nature of the paintings, a common theme being close to feeling when one might reach out and touch the grass, stone or earth. He is reticent to articulate aloud a specific aim for his work, deferring to the subjectivity of the viewer. Peter now divides his time as a painting tutor and painting in his studio in Cootehall, Co Roscommon.
Website: www.wildirelandart.ie
