Bernard O’Scanaill.


Originally from Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway, Bernard O’Scanaill has been residing and working in Australia since 1982.
Taking with him his B. Sc. degree from N.U.I.G., a head full of ideas and a prodigious artistic ability, he took up a career in teaching and continued to pursue his many artistic talents which included music, design, painting and construction
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An accomplished musician, award winning composer and acclaimed painter, Bernard’s inspiration for his art is based on what he has experienced directly.
Over the years, he has been drawn more and more to his easel, his talent with brush, palette-knife, finger (and any other implement that he felt would produce the effect he desired), has resulted in the development of a style that is bold, positive, assured and unselfconscious.
Incorporating his scientific background, architectural interests and passion for living, Bernard provides us with a unique perspective that conjures up the highest value of his art, that is, the constant struggle to achieve honesty and integrity of vision.
His work has been described as possessing an impulse to confront, to unnerve, to taunt and to amuse.

He has exhibited in Ireland, France and Australia. His first one-man show, Wet Paint, at the 2006 Clifden Arts Week was a great success, and its successor, Osmosis, an even greater triumph. Bernard has been invited to exhibit again in September 2008 at Clifden Arts Week.

While fulfilling many commissions, he is also currently working on a major solo show which will open at The Arts Factory, Brisbane, Queensland in March 2008.

Bernard’s work is to be found in many corporate, public and private collections in the U.S., Australia, France and here in Ireland.