Interlude: Aspects of Irish Landscape Painting

This exhibition - the first such show to take place at the Douglas Hyde Gallery since 1990 - is an informal gathering of Irish paintings that have been inspired, in various ways, by landscape. Intended to have an air of lightness and ease, it is also a reflection of darker, more ambiguous, moods and currents in the world.

I invited artists to take part in this summer exhibition in much the same way as I might put together a list for a party. Some are old friends; others are acquaintances; a few are people I don't really know but whose work I find interesting for one reason or another. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to make the gathering more comprehensive or all-embracing.

To give the exhibition a particular focus, artists were asked to propose two or three works that might throw some light on the idea of 'liminality' - in-between places, edges, thresholds, points at which something is transformed - and I chose the final image from their suggestions. It has been an interesting and enjoyable process, and I thank all the artists for their enthusiasm and generosity.