Robert Ryan: Irish contemporary art, artist and paintings

Robert Ryan was born in Limerick in 1964. He graduated from Limerick School of Art & Design in 1987. After that Robert worked in London and Copenhagen before returning to Ireland in 1994.

Robert Ryan contemporary paintings combine a strong sense of imagination and atmosphere. Talking about his paintings Ryan says: “I work at night, I work 'til dawn. I find the solitude in the art work and there are no distractions at night. I don't work from life, I work from my imagination. The execution of a painting may only take a couple of weeks but coming up with the concept could take an awful lot longer. Each painting has a parent and a child, they are all chain reactions”.

Robert Ryan paintings depict a universal landscape where generic creatures (as if in limbo) wander in search of sanctuary like lost souls.

In addition to Red Rag Irish Art Gallery Robert Ryan has exhibited at other leading Irish Art Galleries and Internationally. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Robert Ryan artist studio in Ireland and like all Red Rag Irish art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide.