Win A Mick O’Dea Original Painting

With a gallery value of €8,000 to €10,000, you can get your grubby little hands on the above Mick O’Dea painting for just €100.

With just 100 tickets being issued in this fine draw, you might want to jump on this little gift of a raffle right away.

And the good news is, all the moolah raised goes to The Caroline Foundation.

The painting itself is of a sea stack off the coast of North Mayo, and is one of a number of sea stacks Mick O’Dea has painted over the last 20 years. “As a portrait painter,” says O’Dea, “I tend to paint portrait-type objects which act as surrogate heads or figures, and whose character, presence and resilience have impressed me. These stacks, after all, have been cut away and stand proud and isolated from the mainland.”

Hey, know that feeling.

Here’s a little background spiel on the man behind this 140cm x 100cm painting on acrylic canvas…

Born in Ennis, County Clare, in 1958, O’Dea studied at the National College of Art and Design and the University of Massachusetts from 1976 to 1981. In 1997, he was awarded an MA in European Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art, having studied in Barcelona and Winchester.

O’Dea has exhibited widely in Ireland and Europe, most recently with the concluding show in his civil war trilogy, The Split, at Kevin Kavangh, Dublin (2014), and a major solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, The Foggy Dew (2016). O’Dea was elected a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1996 and was elected President of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2014.

So, you know, the man knows his shit. To get your hand on one of the golden tickets, email Helen at [email protected]. Now. The draw will take place on October 6th.