Birr Castle Demesne through the Artist’s Eye
Art Exhibition
As part of our 400-year celebrations, Lord and Lady Rosse of Birr Castle are delighted to host the 2020 “Birr Castle Demesne through the Artist’s Eye” exhibition.
Admission to the Exhibition is FREE. All art will be for sale.
Should you wish to access the Gardens, Telescope and Science Galleries during your visit a valid General Admission ticket will be required.
The Exhibition will run daily from: Sunday 13 September to Saturday 24 October during opening hours.(further updates maybe take place due to current government guidelines) Location: Exhibition Space located beside our reception area of the visitor entrance.
The Exhibition will feature landscape, botanical art, and sculptures. Award-winning artists such as Lesley Fennell, Andrea Jameson, Sasha Sykes, Susan Sex, Lynn Stringer, Mary Dillion, Alison Rosse, Patricia Newman, Holly Somerville and Yanny Petters are amongst the artists taking place.
Should you wish to purchase art on line please email: art@birrcastle.com with your full contact details and the reference number of the art piece you are interested. Shipping costs will be added to the cost of art and passed onto the purchaser.
Artist: Lesley Fennell
Title: The Willow Tree
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 57cm (W) x 47cm (H)
Price: €1,700
Reference No.: 27
Artist: Lesley Fennell
Title: Camellia ‘Maud Messel’
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40cm (W) x 51cm (H)
Price: €1,200 (RESERVED)
Reference No.: 25
Artist: Yanny Petters
Title: Field of Vision – Pyramidal orchid, Verre Eglomisé
Medium: Painting on glass
Size: 48cm diameter
Price: €3,000
Reference No.: 8
Artist: Yanny Petters
Title: Field of Vision – common spotted orchid, Verre Eglomisé
Medium: Painting on glass
Size: 48cm diameter
Price: €3,000
Reference No.: 9
Artist: Lesley Fennell
Title: The Two Urns
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 35cm (W) x 30cm (H)
Price: €800
Reference No.: 24
Artist: Lesley Fennell
Title: Rhododendron augustinii
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 51cm (W) x 41cm (H)
Price: €1,200
Reference No.: 26
Artist: Sasha Sykes
Title: Discoverage
Medium: Flora of Birr, Acrylic, Resin
Size: 127cm (H) x 35cm diameter
Price: POA
Reference No.: 58
Artist: Fionnuala Broughan
Title: Japanese umbrella pine, Sciadopitys verticillata
Medium: Graphite
Size: 83cm (W) x 33cm (H)
Price: €400
Reference No.: 18
Artist: Maria Levinge
Title: The Anne Rosse Seat.
Medium: Oil on Arches paper
Size: 34cm (W) x 40cm (H)
Price: €380
Reference No.: 20
Artist: Maria Levinge
Title:The Michael Rosse Seat
Medium: Oil on Arches paper
Size: 34cm (W) x 40cm (H)
Price: €380
Reference No.: 21
Artist: Maria Levinge
Title: Syringa ‘Sensation’ lilac
Medium: Oil on gesso panel
Size: 48cm (W) x 38cm (H)
Price: €700
Reference No.: 22
Artist: Andrea Jameson
Title: “A Walk in the Park”
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 50cm (W) x 39cm (H)
Price: €520
Reference No.: 29
Artist: Andrea Jameson
Title: “By the Lake”
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 85cm (W) x 65cm (H)
Price: SOLD
Reference No.: 3
Artist: Alison Rosse
Title: The Formal Gardens
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 34cm (W) x 39cm (H)
Price SOLD
Reference No.: 45
Artist: Barbara Mullarney
Title: Looking up and beyond
Subject: The Great Telescope Building with Birr Castle in the distance
Medium: Print of Hahnemuhle archive paper
Limited Edition of 25
Size: 52cm (W) x 71cm (H)
Price: €250
Reference No.: 31
Artist: Barbara Mullarney
Title: Pinus sylvestris
Medium: Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Archival Peper
Limited Edition of 25
Size: 52cm (W) x 71cm (H)
Price: €250
Reference No.: 30
Artist: John Cullinan
Title: Landscape in the Garden No. 3
Subject: Landscape in the garden
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 93cm (W) x 68cm (H) framed
Price: €800
Reference No.: 14
Artist: Cathy Callan
Title: Birr Castle Demesne, through the artist’s eye
Medium: Oil on hand-primed linen
Size: 120cm (W) x 100cm (H)
Price: €2,900
Reference No.: 5
Artist: Rod Coyne
Title: “Birr Castle Keep Gate”
Medium: acrylic paint on water colour paper
Size: 53cm (W) x 73cm (H)
Price: €575
Reference No.: 23
Artist: Peter Murray
Title: Tilia ‘Alison Rosse’
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 78cm (W) x 63cm (H) when framed
Price: €750
Reference No.: 33
Artist: John Cullinan
Title: Landscape in the Garden No. 4
Subject: Landscape in the garden
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 93cm (W) x 68cm (H)
Price: €800
Reference No.: 15
Artist: John Cullinan
Title: Landscape artist in the Garden No. 1
Subject: Landscape in the garden
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 93cm (W) x 68cm (H) framed
Price: €3,000
Reference No.: 13
Artist: Caroline Canning
Title: Cherry Blossom View
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 87cm (W) x 126cm (H)
Price: €2,500
Reference No.: 11
Artist: Mary Dillon
Title: Acanthus mollis – wintering out
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Size: 95cm (W) x 76cm (H)
Price €4,500
Reference No.: 50
Artist: Mary Dillon
Title: ‘In the Pink’ – Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink cloud’
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Size: 42cm (W) x 42cm (H)
Price €650
Reference No.: 49
Artist: Margareta Pertl
Title: Ehretia dicksonii
Medium: Pencil drawing
Size: 33cm (W) x 42cm (H)
Price: Reserved
Reference No.: 53
Artist: Lynn Stringer
Title: Clethra delavayi
Medium: Watercolour and pencil
Size: 58cm (W) x 49cm (H)
Price: €550
Reference No.: 39
Artist: Shevaun Doherty
Title: Tilia ‘Alison Rosse’ and the Bees of Birr Castle
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Size: 59cm (W) x 46cm (H)
Price: €2,800
Reference No.: 44
Artist: Andrea Jameson
Title: Fagus sylvatica ‘Aurea Pendula’ by the wooden bridge over Inish Dara
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 56cm (W) x 66cm (H)
Price: €1,200
Reference No.: 4
Artist: Andrea Jameson
Title: Autumn Colour by the River Garden
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 85cm (W) x 65cm (H)
Price: (sold)
Reference No.: 1
Artist: Andrea Jameson
Title: Among the enormous Thuya plicata trees
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 93cm (W) x 67cm (H)
Price: €1,800
Reference No.: 2
Artist: Alison Rosse
Title: The Great Telescope in Spring
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 38cm (W) x 33cm (H)
Price €280 (RESERVED)
Reference No.: 48
Artist: Andrea Jameson
Title: The Fernery Waterfall
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40cm (W) x 45cm (H)
Price €520
Reference No.: 28
Artist: Alison Rosse
Title: Lake in Winter
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 44cm (W) x 31cm (H)
Price €650
Reference No.: 47
Artist: Alison Rosse
Title: The Carroll Oak
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 55cm (W) x 36cm (H)
Price: €950
Reference No.: 46
Artist: Lynn Stringer
Title: Tetracentron sinense
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 59cm (W) x 76cm (H)
Price: €750
Reference No.: 40
Artist: Susan Sex
Title: Paeonia ‘Anne Rosse’
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 95cm (W) x 78cm (H)
Price SOLD
Reference No.: 52
Artist: Li Qiang
Title: Peony at Mount Palmer
Medium: Water colour
Size: 40cm (W) x 40cm (H)
Price: €400 (RE3ERVED)
Reference No.: 42
Artist: Li Qiang
Title: Davidia involucrata ‘Birr Gold’
Medium: Water colour
Size: 40cm (W) x 40cm (H)
Price €400
Reference No.: 43 (RESERVED)
Artist: Holly Somerville
Title: Magnolia delavayi
Medium: watercolour on hot-pressed Saunders Waterford paper
Size: 72cm (W) x 79cm (H)
Price: €975
Reference No.: 16
Artist: Tara Lanigan-O’Keeffe
Title: Eucryphia x nymansensis “Nymans Silver”
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 58cm (W) x 53cm (H)
Price SOLD
Reference No.: 10
Artist: Li Qiang
Title: Cercis canadensis at the acorn bollards
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 40cm (W) x 40cm (H)
Price: €400 (RESERVED)
Reference No.: 41
Artist: Elaine Moore Mackey
Title: Wild fuchsia
Subject: Fuchsia magellanica var. gracilis, Birr Castle Demesne 2020
Medium: Watercolour and Polychromos pencils
Size: 60cm (W) x 60cm (H)
Price: €670
Reference No.: 7
Artist: Elaine Moore Mackey
Title: Birr fuchsias
Subject: Fuchsia excorticata & F. ‘Riccartonii’, Birr Castle Demesne 2019
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 53cm (W) x 44cm (H)
Price: €450
Reference No.: 6
Artist: Fionnuala Broughan
Title: The Carroll Oak, Quercus robur
Medium: Graphite
Size: 84cm (W) x 57cm (H)
Price: €650
Reference No.: 17
Artist: Martin Lyttle
Title: Spindle bush
Medium: Limestone
Size: 30cm x 25cm
Price: €1,800
Reference No.: 36
Artist: Peter Murray
Title: Birr Castle
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 78cm (W) x 63cm (H)
Price: €900
Reference No.: 34
Artist: Peter Murray
Title: Rhododendron
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 73cm (W) x 52cm (H)
Price: €450
Reference No.: 32
Artist: Barbara Mullarney
Title: Whirlpool Spiral Walk Tilia cordata
Medium: Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag archival paper
Limited edition of 25
Size: 72cm (W) x 52cm (H)
Price: €250
Reference No.: 51
Artist: John Cullinan
Title: Landscape in the Garden No. 2
Subject: Landscape in the garden
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 82cm (W) x 71cm (H) framed
Price: €800
Reference No.: 12
Artist: Martin Lyttle
Title: Tilia ‘Alison Rosse’
Medium Limestone
Size: 26cm (W) x 36cm (H) x 23 (D)
Price €950
Reference No.: 37
Artist: Eileen McDonagh
Title: Thorn of the Cross
Material: Kilkenny Limestone
Size: 33cm (W) x 19cm (H)
Price: €1200
Reference No.: 35
Artist: Deirdre Croft
Title: The Enchanted Garden
Medium: This is a high relief ceramic panel mounted on timber
Size: 50cm (W) x 47cm (H)
Price: €490
Reference No.: 54
Artist: Deirdre Croft
Title: Garden Spirits Holly
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 25cm (W) x 107cm (H)
Price: SOLD
Reference No.: 56
Artist: Deirdre Croft
Title: Garden Spirits Chestnut
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 25cm (W) x 26cm (H)
Price: €195
Reference No.: 57
Artist: Deirdre Croft
Title: Garden Spirits Oak
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 25cm (W) x 26cm (H)
Price: €195
Reference No.: 55
Artist: Shane Jackson
Title: ‘Sheath’
Medium: Bronze and Kilkenny limestone
Size: 12cm (W) x 55cm (H)
Price: €3,800
Reference No.: 19
Artist Nicola Morrin
Title: Flowers got Fireworks
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 67 cm (w) X 66 cm (h)
Price: €3400
Reference No.: 59
Artist Patricia Elvira Newman
Title: Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 54 cm (w) X 41 cm (h)
Price: €650
Reference No.: 59
