Tag Archives: surreal

Cropped View of Ballycotton Islands

April 22, 2026 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged art, Balllycotton, contemporary, cropped, detailed, garryvoe, irish, islands, niall mccarthy, photorealistic, realistic, seascape, surreal, unusual | Leave a comment

An upturned plastic tank facing the sea last Autumn provided an unusual way of framing a familiar view.

Lost Lives on a Laburnum Tree

February 2, 2026 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged art, bloom, blossom, detailed, hanging, laburnum, painting, photorealistic, realistic, suicide, surreal, tree, yellow | Leave a comment

Too many lives have been lost to suicide in Ireland and I wanted to use the visual metaphor of a laburnum tree that no longer exists to express this.

Rock in Summer

November 11, 2025 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged art, beach, contemporary, detailed, irish, niall mccarthy, oil, painting, photorealism, photorealistic, rock, summer, surreal | Leave a comment

Marriage

February 7, 2025 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged art, arthritic, arthritis, detailed, hand, niall mccarthy, painting, personal, photorealism, photorealistic, realistic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, surreal, surrealism | Leave a comment

We’re made of Stardust

April 28, 2024 by eastcorkpainter in art, Uncategorized and tagged art, ectoplasm, foetus, imaginary, metaphysical, night sky, nightscape, oil painting, oils, painting, prussian blue, silver, stars, surreal, water mixable | Leave a comment

Synthesis

January 10, 2024 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, atmospheric, broken land, cliffs, detailed, eroded cliffs, erosion, face in the landscape, niall mccarthy, painting, realistic, seascape, surreal, surrealism | Leave a comment

Hands At Sea

May 1, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged art, arthritic, deformed, distorted, hands, imaginary, imaginative, niall mccarthy, painting, setting sun, silver and gold, suffering, sunset, surreal, various hands | Leave a comment

Interior Seascape

March 15, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, breaking wave, breaking wave painting, crusty, detailed, domestic, exterior, imaginary, imaginative, imagined space, impasto, interior, living room, niall mccarthy, painting, primary colors, primary colours, seascape, space, surreal, surrealism, wave | Leave a comment

Anthropomorphic Foam 3

March 8, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged 2023, art, beach, bright white, contemporary, corpse, dead man, detailed, foam, impasto, legend, local legend, mist, misty, niall mccarthy, oil, painting, realistic, romantic, romanticism, surreal, washed up, white | Leave a comment

Anthropomorphic Foam 2

February 3, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged 2023, beach, body, contemporary, corpse, crusted, crusty, detailed, dying man, figure, foam, folklore, human, impasto, legend, myth, niall mccarthy, oil, painting, realistic, shore, skinny, surreal, thick, washed up, water mixable | Leave a comment