RONAN GOTI

Ronan Goti has experienced a significant measure of success during his career. First achieving recognition as an accomplished seascape painter, most notable for his depictions of children playing on Dublin's shorelines. Landscape and nature scenes have become increasingly prominent in the artist's oeuvre... Soft, seamless brushwork, careful draftsmanship, and pastel hues created by subdued filtered light are the essential traits of Ronan's understated, reflective scenes of nature. Landscapes exhibit a sensibility to solidity of the ocean, expansive skies and effects of precipitated light. Nature is never harsh or austere. When waves swell toward the viewer, Ronan avoids the representation of climactic breakers, as even his most dramatic seascapes are characterized by tranquil composure. Yet it would be a mistake to ascribe this as an attempt to create passive images. Although he is determined to adopt this taming process, his canvases retain an urgency, their sense of being an excited..