Irish Artist and Fine Art Painter
Dana Winder is a contemporary Irish artist and fine art painter. Her oil on canvas and linen paintings are distinctive for capturing the colours and moods of Ireland’s countryside. These landscape paintings are of mountains, bogs, coast, sea, plants and trees. She likes to paint outdoors on location throughout the year.
Motivated by a desire to bring the uniqueness of the Irish landscape to her work she closely observes the colour of plants and the landscape as they change through the seasons. Her paintings develop over many sessions of observation and building layers upon layers of paint frequently refining these works later in the studio. This two-stage process allows for greater development of her individual vision.
Working in oil on linen she allows the natural tones of the linen to appear in places. Creating an effect of the images emerging from the canvas. She is notable among artists for her striking and sensitive use of colour.
Irish landscape Paintings
Dana’s painting practice sits firmly within the tradition of Irish landscape artists. However, she brings a unique perspective, grounded in direct observation and daily engagement with the land around her. She has focused for many years on capturing the atmosphere and mood of the places she paints. Painting outdoors on location has been an important part of this process giving a vibrancy to these landscape paintings.
The subject matter of her work ranges from scenes of her garden and near her home in Kerry with it’s dramatic landscape, rugged mountains of purple rock, breath-taking coastline along a constantly changing Atlantic Ocean to still bogland rich in native plants and trees.
She is emerging as one of today’s exceptional Irish landscape artists.
Examples of her artwork can be viewed in the Gallery Page https://danawinder.com/gallery-contemporary-landscape-paintings/
The Purcell Gallery, Kenmare, http://www.purcellgallerykenmare.com
Paintings of Ireland
Landscapes Painted on location in Ireland
