COFFIN SHIP RETURN OLIVER CURRAN

Curranart, initiated in Newry Co Down In 1997. It has been online since Spring 2001 under the domain name of curranart.com. The curranart.com domain was taken by what is commonly known today as cybersquatters, this new web site hopes to provide a simple, effective means for olivers art to regain its rightfull place on line.

This web site is a simple one for now, more detail and art content will be added very soon, many more images of the artists work will also appear here as we get organised, thanks for looking in. He is also here if you care to read more about him.

Coffin Ships return. This picture show Newry from Sugar island around the turn of the century, the artist spent 14 months on this work, loading it with paint and trying very hard to get it in proportion & the buildings In the right slots . Copied from a small picture this,so it was not an easy task as the canvas is a very big one. Not the artists usual colours but he loves all bright colours, again he says it was a matter of what worked and what didnt ,theres a lot of paint on this canvas, its the heaviest of all my works even now. The painting sold to a Camlough Girl by the name of Fearn.

Fiddler & the Dolmens. This is another large painting by Oliver at least 6 ft long and high. Again he states it just making the colours work. Took him 8 months getting it to this stage, not finished as yet he states but it will be by August for the Belfast Festival where I intend to show it. The painting hung In a restraunt In Camlough for over a year,took a while to tease it back but eventualyl it came back, another one was in a restraunt In Warrenpoint for 2 years the artist says and it was the same hard eork to get it back. He says he never even got a thank you for the 2 year loan,sad stuff. The painting is a big one and is ideal for a pub. Its for sale.

Free Seeds from America. Quite an early painting by the artist his biggest ever at the time, This was featured at the St Iberia exhibition In Wexford In 2001, many people ther shed tears at the images,Oliver stated these people of both divides died at the will of the Landlords greed. Here he depicts a couple and a child returning from an American ship which laned free food for the people. In reality most of those who should have recieved the free food had to pay for it. The artist wishes he had this back for a while to do it some justice, he says I was a beginner at this stage, I can see my mistakes & just wish I could try and make them right. Most artists are the same about thier early works.