Connemara Ponies
Exhibition of Paintings
by Susan Webb
July 26th - Aug 13th 1999
Opening by Lady Hemphill
 #1 Sara's Yard |
 #2 Laytown Strand |
 #3 Oughterard Pony Show |
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#4 Thundering Hooves |
#5 Fun on the Strand |
#6 Ponies in the early Light |
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#7 The Galway Hurdle |
#8 The Lichen Laden Woods |
#9 Passing Shower Maam Cross |
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#10 Collecting the Turf |
#11 Connemara Ponies |
 #12 The Long Road Home |
 #13 Glendalough Woods |
 #14 Glenmalure |
 #15 Ponies near Ballinahinch |
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#16 Riding in the Clara Vale |
 #17 The Duck Pond |
 #18 Crossing the Stream near Cleggan |
 #19 Duilleoga Báite |
 #20 Draoícht Chonamara |
 #21 Eitilt Eala |
 #22 My Cross |
 #23 The Forgotten Garden |
 #24 Móintiúil |
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#25 Portach Báite |
#26 Homeward Bound |
#27 Lettergesh Strand |
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#28 Passing Clouds, Ballinahinch |
#29 Tarn Hows |
#30 Errelough |
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#31 Omey Island |
#32 The Gathering Storm |
#33 Powerscourt Gardens |
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#34 Glendalough |
#35 Roundstone |
#36 Reflections |
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#37 High Tide |
#38 Passing Storm |
#39 On Headland near Roundstone |
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#40 Ponies in the Inagh Valley |
#41 Dogs Bay |
#42 New Beginning |
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#43 Evenly Matched |
#44 As the Dew Lifts |
Susan Webb vividly remembers her first journey to Connemara, it was like going home. There was a sense of déja-vu even though she had never been there before. Her father Kenneth Webb decided, to Susan's delight, to move his Irish School of Landscape Painting to their cottage near Clifden in 1975. This enabled her to hone her landscape painting skills under her father's watchful eye, and to meet with other artists and watch them work. The hinterland around their Ballinaboy home was an inspiration then, and continues to be a powerful influence today.
Today Susan runs the School of Landscape Painting from her River Run Studio in Ashford, Co. Wicklow and from Ballinaboy. In recent weeks she has featured as resident Art Expert on Channel Four's "Watercolour Challenge" programme. She spent three weeks filming in Armagh, Meath, Wicklow, Dublin and the Lake District, a novel experience which showcased her skills and talents to a huge audience.
Horses have always been an important part of Susan's life and so it was inevitable that she should try to capture their grace, beauty and movement on canvas. Many of these images were commissioned portraits, many were her own original ideas, all of them combined the art of equestrian painting with the art of landscape painting.
Her recent work has taken on a new expression in the use of texture, design and colour. Her journey has, in a sense, been an inward one into previously unexplored terrain producing a more personal response to the exciting and ever changing colours and moods of Connemara.
This exhibition reflects a gradual change in style, a loosening, an occasional venture into more abstract forms which give a new depth to her painting as well as a new and interesting balance to her more traditional equestrian images and to her landscape.
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