Bewick

A Retrospective Collection
Seven Ages

A special collection of Pauline's work was opened by President Mary McAleese November 14th 2006. President McAleese unveiled well over 200 pieces of art by Pauline Bewick at the Walton Building in Waterford Institute of Technology where the valuable collection is to be permanently shown having been donated to the State by the renowned Irish artist along with two further collections - one of which will be displayed in Killorglin, Co Kerry while the other will tour in Ireland and overseas. The collection will be in Kenny’s Galway for the Galway Arts Festival 2008, Belfast November 2008 then onto London and Paris. Contact us with your enquiries.

From the age of two, Pauline Bewick's mother, Harry, kept everything Pauline drew and painted up to the late teens. From then onward Pauline herself completed the collection by virtue of a prolific life.

It was after Dr. James White's book, Painting a life, and David Shaw Smith's film documentary, on Bewick's life and work, that the Taylor Gallery in Dubin put on an exhibition in the Guinness Hop Store in 1985, Bewick's 50th year. That exhibition of 1500 works took up three floors, and subsequently travelled the museums of Ireland.

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Guinness Hop Store Exhibition

"Pauline Bewick's earliest memories are of the intense pride her mother took in the little pictures she painted and of how, as a school child in Kerry, her difficulties with spelling were overlooked, not through negligence, but in the belief that here true medium was drawing.

Permanent Collection 2yrs-5yrs

By the time her training as a painter began in the Dublin College of Art in 1950, Pauline had already established her unique facility for making observations directly with colour from life and her ability to translate even the most abstract ideas into recognisable and potent images."
Excerpt taken from Painting a life.
Dr. James White, Art Historian and former Director of the National Gallery of Ireland.