Colm Brett

Colm Brett’s art is about people and places. His passion is to create two-dimensional artworks of still life, landscapes and landscapes with figures in oil paint, acrylics and oil pastels, moving comfortable from realism to impressionism with impasto.

Colm’s project observed IMMA, its grounds and people interacting with it. The final work is his tribute to Robert Ballagh's "Two Men and A Lichtenstein" which is in the IMMA permanent collection and is one of Colm’s favourite Irish artworks.

Considering what has changed in Ireland, since Ballagh's 1974 work, Colm decided that his observers should be two women and should also be " new Irish" so my his professional colleagues from Ukraine agreed to pose at IMMA for photographs which he used to create the composition.

The final painting is called “Irina, Anna and My Paintings Imagined at IMMA”, an 80cm x 60cm acrylic on canvas painting of two women observing three of Colm’s paintings on a Gallery wall set in IMMA. Two of the "paintings within the painting" are of images in the grounds of IMMA / the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and the other is a "Wheatfield and Sky", representing the Ukrainian flag.