by John Toomey | Aug 26, 2019 | Sculptures
Sculpture The Blacksmiths Daughter The inspiration for this piece came from observing this young girl. Initially she was standing outside her father’ forge. I also took photographs. The piece is taken from an actual incident, which I had observed. This young lady was...
by John Toomey | Aug 26, 2019 | Sculptures
Sculpture Agincourt The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory in the Hundred Years War. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin’s Day) modern-day Agincourt, in northern France. Henry Fifth’s victory at Agincourt, against a numerically...
by John Toomey | Aug 26, 2019 | Sculptures
Sculpture The Somme The inspiration for this piece came from unpublished sepia photographs seen in Saint George’s Chapel at Ypres. The photograph showed a dead soldier lying in a trench. Two large rats were eating the side of his face. The base of the piece uses the...
by John Toomey | Aug 26, 2019 | Sculptures
Sculpture The Siege of Limerick This piece was commissioned by the Keane Family. It depicts a lady looking out from the walls of Limerick. The viewer must make up their own mind as to whether she is looking out from the ramparts prior to the storming of the...
by John Toomey | Aug 26, 2019 | Sculptures
Sculpture The Innishman Sculpture Depicting a fisherman from the Arran Islands. The piece was created from photographs, sketches and drawings from 1963. This depicts a fisherman of that period in half life-size. He is wearing clothing of homespun untreated wool and...
by John Toomey | Aug 26, 2019 | Sculptures
Sculpture The Fenian The political turmoil in Ireland that would mark the 19th century actually began in the 1790s, when a revolutionary organization, the United Irishmen, began to organize. Leaders of the organization, most notably Theobald Wolfe Tone, met with...
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