Compelled by the power of landscape

Visitors to Ireland are powerfully influenced by the extraordinary play of light, the crouching mountains, the impossibly green patchwork quilt fields, the tumbling water, and venerable monuments in stone — everything from crumbling castles and abbeys to elegant prehistoric stone circles.

Artists too have been — and still are — compelled by the power of the landscape.

Like JG O’Donoghue, a Cork based artist-illustrator whose pen and ink illustrations and ink paintings and drawings often depict solitary gallauns, or ogham trees.