In pictures: Letterkenny artist Peadar McDaid's Boglands launched at An Gailearaí

Boglands, a new body of work by Letterkenny artist Peadar McDaid, was officially launched at An Gailearaí, Gweedore on Saturday by artist, curator and friend to the artist, Daniel Neilis and with a special poetry recital by local performer Jack Ó Maolàine. Please click on the arrows to go through the gallery

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Peadar, who created these new artworks with help from an Artist Bursary award from Donegal County Council, says: “Boglands is a series of 14 large-scale paintings capturing the environment and nature of these parts of our landscapes. Initially, a series of studies and preliminary drawings were completed on these boglands before the large-scale paintings were created at my studio in Milford.

“I use colour, form and depth to evoke a sense of the living landscape of Northwest Ireland. My practice operates as observation, absorption and interpretation. These visual assimilations then pass through into my work as the artist journeys forward with the paint. Some of the works create their own journey and evolve with the passage of time. The North and West of Ireland, beautiful, battered and bruised with its wild coastline and its deep moody glens, mountains and boglands, has completely captured my Imagination.”

The collection of oil paintings can be viewed at An Gailearaí until February 28. Opening hours are Monday-Friday 11am - 5pm apart from Wednesday when they’re open at the later time of 1-8pm.