Artist recreates Harry Clarke's stained glass at Honan as currach painting  

Kathleen Furey’s interpretation of Clarke’s St Gobnait window echoes the intricate bee motifs, and will be on display in Baile Mhúirne

Kathleen Furey and her currach piece inspired by Harry Clarke. Picture: Rynes Walker

Summers spent on the Aran island of Inis Oírr are believed to have inspired one of Harry Clarke’s most celebrated works, his striking stained-glass window in the Honan Chapel at UCC, depicting the life of Saint Gobnait.

Clarke’s creative process became an artwork in its own right as the subject of the 1917 painting Thinking Out Gobnet, by Seán Keating, his companion during frequent stays on the island. Keating, whose War of Independence study Men of the South hangs in Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery, portrayed Clarke in Thinking Out Gobnet pondering his Honan Chapel commission among the ruins of St Gobnait’s church on Inis Oírr.