Across the Field of Barley, Ireland - Reminiscent of Jeremiah Hoad
It was high summer. the start of August and after photographing a river woodland I stopped to photograph this scene.
In front of me, on this hot day in the Irish countryside, a long scene of distant heather-clad mountains with green lower slopes and a vast field of golden barley.
A big sky filled with clouds allowed a little blue to show.
A few weeks later I saw a tweet, of an Irish painter that I had not heard of before, referencing a landscape from County Mayo in Ireland's west. It was Across the Bog, Mayo by Jeremiah Hoad.
And I was struck by the similarities between this fine oil painting of an Irish bogland scene and my own recent image of the barley field with mountains.
Even though my landscape photograph is not of Mayo, nor is it of a bog I do think there is a comparison to be made.
And while my image was not inspired by this artist's fine work, it is similar and definitely reminiscent of the oil painting.
Jeremiah Hoad, Across the Bog, Mayo
Landscape photography does often emulate art and it is interesting that what subject matter painters have been representing on canvas over the centuries, photographers have been committing to film and screen.
I have been looking at Jeremiah Hoad's other artworks and am deeply impressed by this little known Irish artist.
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