Expo fulfils artist’s dream
Walter K Verling, 85, from Newross, Co Wexford has lifelong connections with Youghal and his 73-piece exhibition intimately captures the local landscape between 1949 and 2015.
The artist’s early years were spent first in Mallow and then Midleton, where an aunt regularly brought him to Youghal beach. In 1961 he married Louise Ní Riada, sister of composer Seán O’Riada, and the couple settled in “a Gothic-style house overlooking Youghal lighthouse,” says the couple’s daughter Katie.
