As retailers seem to be clearing out the shop, painting the windows white and putting up the to-let sign in depressing numbers, it is great to see some new green shoots budding.
One of these is the Lyndsay Gallery in Monkstown, Co Dublin, which brings a return to the area of the Lyndsay family after a 20-year break. Barry Lyndsay’s mother Kathryn ran a successful gallery off Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock until she moved with her artist husband Roy Lyndsay to Mullingar. Now their son, Barry, has refurbished a premises on Monkstown Crescent, doing all the hard labour and building work himself before Christmas. He has stocked it with his father’s work, both original oils and prints, along with an impressive mix of established and emerging Irish painters. A new exhibition is under way until the end of March, showing reasonably priced paintings and prints, from Graham Knuttels to works by Rasher, Markey Robinson, Michael Cullen RHA and Chára Nagle, whose work is represented above. The exhibition is online at thelyndsaygallery.com or call into the Lyndsay Gallery at 7A Monkstown Crescent, Co Dublin.
