The Living Mountain
I am sitting in Richard Hearns' studio in the Burren in County Clare. Before me are the five large paintings of 'The Living Mountain.' Behind me, out the western window that occupies most of the opposite wall, is the mountain itself, grey and impassive.
The paintings look out at the mountain, and the mountain looks back.
The paintings themselves are neither grey nor impassive. They are charged. They pulse first with energy, urgency and colour, and then, as you sit longer, tenderness and delicacy.
Niall Williams
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