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Pete Monaghan

Pete Monaghan was born in 1961, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, of Anglo-Irish parentage. He works from a studio in the Old College on Aberystwyth’s seafront. After initial training in mechanical engineering and then technical illustration he subsequently spent over twenty years in Germany working as an illustrator.

He seeks to integrate the strict illustration disciplines with an irrepressible passion for drawing and painting. In his paintings he depicts vernacular architecture in a fusion of abstraction and figuration, calling on a depth of drawing expertise to produce work in acrylic and mixed media with collage. His background in illustration feeds into the paintings. Working in acrylics on wood panel using crayons, markers, collage and spray paint he likes to retain portions of each painting as a drawn element reflecting the fragility and temporality of the structures. His work is part representation, part visceral interpretation.

“My work always begins with sketching on location. Subsequently re-sketching many times in the studio in order to interpret and understand. Only when I have drawn sufficiently do I feel the freedom to splash and pour paint, enticing abstraction, entering into a dialogue of controlling and letting go.

My work is in response to place. I feel drawn to the celtic fringes of the UK and Ireland along with the higher slopes of the Alps. I depict vernacular architecture; buildings that have grown out of the landscape, where local materials were used in construction and function took precedent over aesthetics.”

“Neglected and dilapidated places fascinate Pete Monaghan. He has returned to them over and over again until they have become firmly established as the subject matter of his paintings. What is it that draws some of us to the tumbledown, to the make-do, to ramshackle farms and rusting echoes of abandoned barns? These are tatty, unaesthetic places. Many people turn their gaze away from them but, for those with eyes to see them, their forms are beautiful and their stories are compelling. Every detail reflects some labour, the solution to some problem: each boulder in the dry-stone walls was once lifted into place by hand, each patch made in corrugated-iron roofs is the ghost of someone’s ladder-reach. These places all were once the centre of someone’s life.”  (Dr. Peter Wakelin 2016)

 

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Available work by Pete Monaghan:

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    An Blascoid Mór

    Pete Monaghan
    Mixed media. Framed. Image size 50 x 40cm
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    Bont Goch Blue

    Pete Monaghan
    Mixed media. Framed. Image size 40 x 50cm Pete says about this work: ‘I’ve been…
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    Caer Arglyddes

    Pete Monaghan
    Mixed media. Framed. Image size 40 x 50cm
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    Ensemble

    Pete Monaghan
    Mixed media. Framed. Image size 40 x 50cm
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    Gareg Hir

    Pete Monaghan
    Mixed media. Framed. Image size 40 x 40cm
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    Red Barns

    Pete Monaghan
    Mixed media. Framed. Image size 40 x 40cm
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    Village from the Gate (Beauty Beyond)

    Pete Monaghan
    Acrylic + Collage on board. 40 x 50cm image size.
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    Beddgelert – Blue Barn

    Pete Monaghan
    Acrylic + Collage on board. 40 x 40cm image size.
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    Port Magee (An Caladh)

    Pete Monaghan
    Acrylic + Collage on board. 50 x 50cm image size.
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    Jimmy’s

    Pete Monaghan
    Acrylic + Collage on board. 40 x 40cm image size.
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    Cottage 1, East Elevation

    Pete Monaghan
    Acrylic + Collage on board. 40 x 40cm image size.
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    Cill Rialaig (Ever Changing Moods)

    Pete Monaghan
    Acrylic + Collage on board. 40 x 50cm image size.
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