The Golden Age of Cornish Art
Tony O’MALLEY

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Trevaylor, Cornwall
(1965) 23 x 33cm mixed media £6,950


Scilly Isles
(1964) 24 x 34cm mixed media £6,950


Summer Field
(1973) 13 x 21cm mixed media £5,075


St Ives first day cover
(23/3/80) 17 x 23cm mixed media £3,325


Still life by the sea at Seal Cottage
(1969) 20 x 31cm mixed media £5,325


Porthmeor
(1970) 32 x 19cm gouache & pen £6,000 Reserved on a FIRST REFUSAL basis - call 01326 318452 to check availability

Sea Rhythms, Porthmeor(1969) 19 x 32cm gouache £5,675


Cornish Sea
(1965) 21 x 32cm mixed media £5,325


Starburst
13 x 10cm mixed media SOLD


Bird moon II
15 x 58cm oil £12,000

Tony O’Malley (1913-2003)
Tony O’Malley was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny in 1913. He worked for many years as a bank clerk but after contracting tuberculosis he retired from the bank to pursue a long-desired career as a full-time painter. For the next thirty years O’Malley lived in Cornwall where he came into contact with many of the leading figures in the community of artists there, including Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Bernard Leach, Terry Frost and Bryan Wynter. In 1973 he married the Canadian painter Jane Harris.

In 1990 the O’Malleys returned to Ireland to settle close to the artist’s home town of Callan where he died in 2002. Tony O’Malley was one of the major figures in Irish contemporary art. He has exhibited widely since the 1950’s in England, Ireland and Europe. In 1993, he was conferred by President Mary Robinson with the Aosdana title of Saoi, an honour confined to only five living artists. He has also received the prestigious IMMA/Glen Dimplex Lifetime Achievement Award.

“O’Malley has a rare and remarkable talent. He is certainly one of the most profoundly gifted painters ever to have come from Ireland.” Patrick Heron.