Seamus Berkeley
@seamusberkeley@seamusberkeley.com
Seamus Berkeley has been creating paintings, photographs and prints in a variety of genres for decades. Dublin-born, Berkeley lives in Taos, New Mexico and travels extensively for inspiration for his paintings and photographic images.His paintings and images are extensively collected, both nationally and internationally, most of which is commissioned fine art paintings. He uses oils as his primary painting medium, focusing on a variety of subjects in a representational impressionistic style and digital camera and phone for his exploration of the natural world.
What motivates him to create artwork is that serve as reminders to the viewer of our existence in and as part of nature. The primary goal is to make artwork that reflects his personal experience of memorable moments of being alive. Artwork has the potential to evoke a similar memorable experience for the viewer.
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Reds and Greens: The Green Bottle
When layered, red and green paint form a black color. This particular still life arrangement investigates this notion: what happens to these two colors when a green bottle is placed in front of a red background? It looks pretty dark, for sure! You can explore life through a lens of artful awareness by noticing how…
Reds and Greens: Three Green Pears
This painting is another example of experimenting with the colors, red and green, in the composition. In addition to having fun with the juxtaposition of red and green, there is also the play of placing pears in an unusual arrangement in the mid-ground and background, as well as placement of objects on the edge of…
Reds and Greens: Hot Red Peppers
The primary colors red, yellow and blue form a triangle on a circular color wheel. Our eyes perceive colors as more vibrant when any two colors that are directly opposite from one another on the circle are placed adjacent to each other. For example, when a shape of red is placed next to a shape…
Practicing Stillness: Seeing Simplicity
It is fascinating to consider that the human eye mainly sees in shades of grey. Most of the receptors in the eye collect light value and only a small number of the receptors perceive color. When we observe our surroundings it can be revealing and enlivening to focus on the shadows: what’s in them, how…
Practicing Stillness: Seeing Color
Red, yellow and blue—the primary colors. What makes them primary? Such a fascinating question: why is it that these three colors cannot be created by using other colors to mix them, as is the case with non-primary colors? Here’s another question: What is blue? When we look at objects, such as the sky, or the…
Practicing Stillness: Spacious Mug
One of the biggest questions when organizing a still life composition is deciding where the objects belong. Do they fill the entire frame, or is there a space left around the object? Are there many objects filling the composition, or just one off in a corner somewhere? Paintings are often a reflection of our lives.…
Practicing Stillness: Red Peppers, Green Vase
The primary colors red, yellow and blue form a triangle on a circular color wheel. Our eyes perceive colors as more vibrant when any two colors that are directly opposite from one another on the circle are placed adjacent to each other. For example, when a shape of red is placed next to a shape…
Inward Painting
“Peering within ourselves to discover what is hidden is one of the most engaging and challenging endeavors of life.” – Seamus Berkeley A portal within a portal. Mind, body and soul intertwined in ways we do not yet fully understand. Yet, who knows what insights we might discover when we take the time to look…
Roughty Bridge II Painting
An illuminating iteration of Roughty Bridge I, Seamus Berkeley ventures even deeper into the transformative terrain of vertical paintings with Roughty Bridge II. As if the landscape has both come into focus and come alive on canvas, Roughty Bridge II invites viewers to inquire about the ways in which we see our environment—in which we…