West Of Ireland women wrapped in shawls seem to be a leitmotif of the latest exhibition at Dublin's Frederick Gallery, which opens to the public next week and continues until Friday, March 26th. This particular example, by Sean Keating, is called Kathleen Na Hulahan and was painted during the 1920s, the same period in which Philip Naviasky, a Leeds-born artist of Polish extraction, visited the country and painted Connemara Girl, which is also in the Frederick Gallery exhibition. The latter picture shows a seated girl wearing an Aran sweater and a check shawl against a brilliant red background.

In addition, the show offers an earlier watercolour by Erskine Nicol of a Galway Girl, together with George Collie's Ceann Cailin (yet another shawled girl) and finally Charles Lamb's Connemara Egg Seller, in which, for once, russet tones do not predominate.