Art
Co. Dublin.
Destroyed by fire in recent years.
Brendan has being drawing and painting for many years now. His first exhibition was in 1993 when Brendan captured in watercolor the remaining Thatched Cottages of his native Fingal area. This exhibition contained fifty watercolors and was aimed at both promoting Brendan as an up and coming artist and to highlight the unique architecture and setting of these picturesque buildings. The exhibition was a sell out and established Brendan as a competent artist of the built environment. Brendan’s second solo exhibition was in a different medium pen and ink and comprised of seventy eight ink drawings of well known buildings of the town of Swords.
Brendan continues to paint and draw constantly fulfilling private commissions for various clients. His paintings have been purchased for the private collections of both politicians and ambassadors. Brendan exhibits each year at various venues.
All of the buildings depicted in Brendan`s art are actual buildings that once or are still standing upon the landscape of Ireland have been recorded by Brendan. Many of the Thatched Houses painted by Brendan have sadly disappeared from the landscape since his first exhibition of 1993. Brendan constantly gets requests to paint houses from old photographs and the watercolor you see above of a thatched house in the townland of Tobeen, Garristown , North County Dublin was sadly destroyed by fire in December 2004. This makes Brendan’s artwork all the more important as a visual reference of structures no longer in existence but captured in watercolor forever.
Some Words from An Taoiseach
These paintings by Brendan Lynch are not only charming and decorative images from local the landscape they are also an important historical record. The vernacular architecture of Fingal is important in its own right. The buildings that Brendan has represented are as intrinsic to the landscape and as important to our heritage as any grander structure. They stand as a reminder of the rich local life and culture that they were built to serve in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In capturing them in his paintings and drawings Brendan has made work that will give pleasure to the viewer, information to the student and become an important social document for the entire community.
Bertie Ahern TD