Clement McAleer

In excellent original condition. Clean and ready to hang. Unframed.
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The artist's principal source of inspiration throughout his career has been the compelling nature of the changing landscapes around him. Having painted in diverse locations such as the West of Ireland, Italy, Germany and the dramatic Cape Peninsula in South Africa, McAleer has developed his own distinctive approach to the subject. His work combines a sensitivity to the atmospheric changes in the landscape, translated into the fluid handling of the present work, with a concern for the landscape's underlying geometry and recalls Cézanne's advice to his pupil Emile Bernard, 'treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone' (Paul Cézanne, letter to Emile Bernard, 15th April 1904).

Born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, McAleer studied at the Ulster College of Art & Design, the Canterbury College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. He was a prize winner at the prestigious John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool in 1978 and has had numerous solo show at galleries such as the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool and Art First, London.  His work is held in the collections of institutions such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; the Ulster Museum, Belfast and the collections of the Arts Councils of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.