Born in Clonakilty in 1971 West Cork artist, Aidan O'Regan, has for the last number of years established his reputation as a colourist of immense ability. A love of nature and an ability to deconstruct his environs to its constituent colours allows him to interpret the coast and hinterland of West Cork in a fashion so subtle that the viewer is immediately engaged. His works are inspired by the compass of light that exists across the seasons of the West Cork Landscape. From the Piercing blues of direct summer light and the panoramic purples and pinks of a June evening, warm comfortable autumnal reds and oranges, long cold steel winter light, all of these producing the subtlest of nuances from Aidan's palette.

Familiarity, a sense of dèjá vu, peace and tranquillity are commonly used to describe his work because of Aidan's ability to put nature before us in a deconstructed fashion, thus, allowing us to take these base elements of paint and realise our own worlds.

He has no rules with colours, just as there are no straight lines in Nature neither is there a limit to colour or tones. The act of movement of one colour through another and the resultant pigments and shades that result are the driving force behind his work. The Artist refuses not to work with any colour, a testament to his ability to work a palette, or as he says himself

"The Challenge of making the impossible work i.e two colours that should never lie together, that shouldn't work, making these colours come together is where I see triumph".

The results, as we can see are truly special.