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Melita Denaro
All This, and Heaven Too5-9 March | Asia House -
For 30 years, Melita Denaro has painted the landscape surrounding her childhood home in Donegal. Her intimate, lyrical paintings, reflect the memories and friendships that have sustained her and through which she has found her unique voice as a painter. With more than forty paintings selected by the artist the exhibition previews at Asia House, New Cavendish Street before going onto the gallery from 11-21 March.
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Melita Denaro, The whole of the coast of Donegal is a sanctuary for whales, they feel safe here (cat. 31), 2024Click to view more -
Melita Denaro, The lowing kine coming up through the field (cat. 2), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Moved to Reverence, October (cat. 28), 2012Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Returning to the house after work, disappointed as it was too misty to see the evening star and there it was above the gate 'sitting at your own house waiting for you' (Mary Frances). 14th March (cat. 25), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, 'The moon in its old age, like a drifting dolphin's eye seen through a lapping wave', Thomas Hardy, 4th January (cat. 26), 2019Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Paddy enjoying the cool, clear breeze coming in and fluttering her ears, April (cat. 12), 2022Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, The pink underfoot of the harvest mouse as it climbed a ladder of jasmine (cat. 47), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, A Christmas Rose from Derry, I saw my robin preening in a shaft of sunlight (cat. 23), 2020Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Last of the summer roses from Ireland (cat. 22), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Sparrows silvering the leaves of the olive tree (cat. 51), 2021Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Watching my Robin yawn, I've never seen that before (cat. 52), 2013Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Wee Maya's sweet wave through the window glass of the kitchen door (cat. 4), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, The sunlit pink of a sparrow's beak, indeed, a spark of the divine (cat. 13), 2016Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, They shall not grow old, Remembrance, November (cat. 56), 2018Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, The earth transformed by evening grace, Mintiaghs Lake, 21 April (cat. 50), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, A beautiful September evening, an Indian Summer going on and on (cat 58), 2014Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Bridie saying she has had John's cap under her pillow since he died 20 years ago (cat. 32), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Compelled to place, in his sheltering presence (cat. 57), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, The boys playing football in the garden and beaming their delight to me, 21st April (cat. 18), 2014Click to view more
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Whether Melita Denaro is watching a squally cloud, filled with water, change colour as it joins the sea; or a sunbeam illuminating a golden cow in a green corner of a meadow, she brings to her paintings a spiritual intensity that one has seen in the translucent Scapa Flow sunsets of Turner or when a kneeling woman is transformed into the Queen of Heaven by a Tiepolo shaft of sunlight. Always we are given a personal, passionate and thrilling vision of the sublime fusion that takes place in every moment when Heaven meets and then transforms the earth. - Robert Kime
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Melita Denaro, MF saying, 'Women have been dyeing their hair since God was a child.' Later on, 'you're not often wrong but you're right this time' (cat. 38), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Late winter. Thank you Paddy, my life and work will now be dedicated to you. 1st December (cat. 43), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, With young Humphrey, drawing on the floor at The National Gallery (cat. 46), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Thinking of the pietà by Donatello, Mintiaghs Lake (cat. 45), 2020Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' 2 Corinthians 12 (cat. 14), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Holding the tiny glory of a golden-crested wren in the palm of my hand. In memory of Vic (cat. 54), 2014Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Saint Bridget's Eve, Dublin's Dr Bernardo's Winter appeal... 'because childhood lasts a lifetime' (cat. 15), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Charlie saying 'once you are in the turf house you need to proceed with caution' (cat. 16), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Watching gannets diving above Idonia's bay. Claudia and I spellbound (cat. 55), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, The endless consoling beauty of my sight (cat. 36), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, No wonder I work here, the glittering shore, the deep translucent Atlantic powering in (cat. 39), 2014Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Sitting by the wide Atlantic with Charlie, describing where New York lay. Straight out West beyond us. 'Well, really, the next parish', he said (cat. 3), 2019Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, You would know him if you happened on him, for he had the gait of a sailor newly returned from sea (cat. 5), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Being reached still by my most beloved father (70 years since his release from Changi jail). August (cat. 11), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Coming off the hill with my father, going home to Burt. September (cat. 27), 2018-2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Young Wilbur comforting me saying 'I can be your Dad', New Year's Eve (cat. 24), 2014Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Much beauty begins as a consolation for what cannot be mended (cat. 33), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Storms Barrelling in Over Pollan Shore, 19th May, Isle of Doagh, Donegal, 2008Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Brian Fallon saying, as he put the phone down 'look after yourself most tenderly' (cat. 7), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, His wit was the gatekeeper to the tenderest of hearts (cat. 8), 2020Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Unsympathetic tenderness for life, Delacroix said of Rembrandt (cat. 10), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, All this, and heaven too (cat. 21), 2014Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Dunaff, her shape, part of my very breath (cat. 44), 2023Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, The big wave, cow and calm calf. 26th June (cat. 42), 2015Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Rose, my nearest neighbour has gone. Her tenderness, her welcome, her lovely way with things. I wish I'd said goodbye and thank you to her (cat. 34), 2022Click to view more
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Melita Denaro, Machouschla and Mary Frances having a staring match and drinking whiskey and ginger wine in front of the fire - I would rather be part of this, than be at a New Year's Eve party at a hotel in Barry Liffin (cat. 37), 2024Click to view more
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Melita Denaro: All This & Heaven Too
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