On The Town: The dying light of a sunset drew people into the mood of the new works by artist Eithne Jordan that went on view at Dublin's Rubicon Gallery this week. Emer Fahy and Rebecca McKeon, art historians with the Office of Public Works, enjoyed the opening also.
"It captures the atmosphere of the evening sunset," said Fahy of one painting. "You can tell she's not afraid to be really sparse. It almost becomes abstract."
"There's a sense of desolation about them - she's captured it perfectly," added McKeon.
"There's a new serenity there," said writer Kate Thompson, while Kevin Barry, professor of English at NUI Galway, loved the way the light was represented around modern buildings and flyovers.
"It's a great act of acceptance," he said.
The paintings are "so resolved and calm and perfectly assured", said Margo Dolan, director of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in north Co Mayo.
The writer and solicitor, Ronan Sheehan, was pleased to announce that he has a Jordan painting from her first show in 1978.
Cáit O'Riordan, of the Pogues, was enjoying the show too. The Pogues will be doing an eight-date tour of Scotland and England before Christmas this year, returning to finish up at the Point, Dublin, on Thursday, December 23rd, she said.
Artist James Hanley, whose own show of small landscapes opens at the Solomon Gallery in November, stood in front of one of Jordan's paintings, White House II, with his friend, sculptor Paul Ferriter.
The artist's film-maker brother, Neil Jordan, who is busy filming in Dublin, visited the gallery earlier in the day to view the paintings. Jordan's other siblings, Reamonn, Ursula and Dervil, were at the opening to congratulate their sister.
• Recent Landscapes runs at the Rubicon until Saturday, October 30th