Every week on The Arts House Assistant Curator Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery takes a journey through a currently exhibiting work in the company of Arts House presenter Conor Tallon.Donkeys in County Clare (c.1955) by Sylvia Cooke-Collis is painted in the artist’s characteristic style, not unlike that of Henri Matisse.Perhaps owing to her own childhood at Annes Grove, County Cork, Cooke-Collis returned again and again to depicting horses and rural or coastal landscapes in her workThree of them have obediently posed for artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis (1900-1973) along the rocky West Clare coastline, while four more can be seen in the background, keeping a safe distance with the Atlantic Ocean spreading out beyond.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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