Homage to Nathaniel Hone’s Seascape ‘Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather’ by Cabrini Lynch

Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather by Cabrini Lynch - Homage to Nathaniel Hone

The inspiration for this painting came from Nathaniel Hone’s ‘Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather’ painted in 1903 which can be seen in the Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, along with several of his other dramatic seascapes of the west and east coasts of Ireland. The Hugh Lane Gallery web page points out how Hone, living close to the beach in Malahide, could observe the daily even hourly changes of the weather, the ebbing and flowing of the tide, and the precise quality of light in the sky. In ‘Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather’ he hastily sketched the foreground, the broken surfaces of the sea. The rapidly brushed and varied clouds indicate a blustery day and changing light. The lightness of touch might suggest that this is a small painting, yet it is one of Hones’ larger canvases. There is the faint suggestion of a figure walking on the beach, and perhaps seaweed-gatherers, but Hone does not specify these. He observes a large cloud above the sea, lit up by a warm light and beginning to disperse into the blue sky, and the broken clouds above the horizon with sunlight reflected off them. He captures the pinks, whites, pale mauves, golds and pale blues with great subtlety. In early January, on a very stormy day, I visited the beach at Malahide. I did numerous sketches and took some photographs to work on at my studio. I decided to work on a small square canvas, 30cm x 30cm, and to use acrylic paint. I wanted to use contemporary materials and framing. Hone’s painting is on a large canvas, 66.8 x 91.5 cm, and is painted in oils and framed in a ornate gold frame. There are over a hundred years between Hone’s painting and mine. 

Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather, by Nathaniel Hone

In executing Homage to Hone’s painting, ‘Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather’, I did not include figures in the painting. The palette I used is cooler and the paint is applied thickly using an acrylic impasto gel. My handling of the paint is loose. The foreground like Hone’s is hastily sketched and the sky is rapidly painted, containing a variety of tones and loose brush strokes capturing a blustery, stormy day.

CABRINI LYNCH

Cabrini Lynch was born in Dublin and studied Art History at Trinity College Dublin,

Fine Art and Sculpture at the Dublin Institute of Technology and the National College

of Art and Design, Dublin, where she graduated with a first class honours degree in fine

art. In 2012 Cabrini graduated with a MA in Art in the Contemporary World at the

National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Cabrini won the 2002 Arts Council Award

for painting and the Bonn and Uachtarain de Hide gold medal.

 
EXHIBITIONS

Throughout the years Cabrini Lynch's work has been selected to exhibit in many open

exhibitions and group exhibitions such as the RHA, the Oireachtas, The Royal Ulster

Academy, the original Print Gallery and the James Gallery Dublin, The Affordable art

exhibition, Battersea, London, The Barbara Stabnley Gallery London and numerous Art

Centers around Ireland. In 2007, Cabrini was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Florence

Biennale in Italy.

 
MEMBER OF

Visual Artists Ireland, Professional Member, pass Associate member of the Artist Panel,

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, The Signal Art Centre Bray, Dublin Painting

& Sketching Club. Siofra Art Group.



Cabrini has many years experience teaching art and painting to a wide variety of students

at all levels. Cabrini works and paints at her studio in Dublin. 

Contact Cabrini here.