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PFF-Book-2014.Pdf IRELAND’S FAVOURITE THE PERCY FRENCH FESTIVAL 2014 WATERCOLOUR PAINTER WILLIAM PERCY FRENCH (1854-1920) THE PURPLE MOOR, 1905 Realised €9,500 at Whyte’s, 30 September 2013 Whyte’s have a reputation for finding and auctioning fine examples of Ireland’s favourite watercolour painter, and are the holders of the world record, at €44,000, for an example of his work. The latter was a large work in its original Belfast pokerwork frame, originally in the Earl of Iveagh (Guinness) collection. Whyte’s are especially careful to check the authenticity of all Percy French pictures consigned and give a guarantee on all works sold. If you are interested in acquiring or selling works by Percy French – or any other Irish work of art - it will pay you to contact Whyte’s. For informed and confidential advice and valuations contact Ian Whyte, Sarah Gates or Adelle Hughes at [email protected] or 01 676 2888. E Forthcoming auctions: H IRISH & BRITISH ART 24 February · IMPORTANT IRISH ART 19 May T IRISH & BRITISH ART 29 September · IMPORTANT IRISH ART 24 November FR ENCH all at the Royal Dublin Society , WHYTE S PARADOX SINCE 1783 %& ##& #'% WHERE IRISH ART IS TRULY VALUED & – & ' ) 38 Molesworth Street Dublin 2 Ireland 01 676 2888 www.whytes.ie " ("&% & $#%#!!#" #'"&) #'" $$) %$(% THE PERCY FRENCH FESTIVAL 2014 Introduction page 2 Parnell and Percy French page 4 Wednesday 9th July page 9 Thursday 1 0th July page 11 Friday 11th July page 13 RCC Library Services events page 14 Principal Lecturers and Performers page 16 Sean Freyne remembered page 23 Nearby Accommodation inside back cover The Percy French Festival has taken place annually since 2009 at Castlecoote House, the home of the festival founder, Kevin Finnerty, whose father was a founder mem - ber of the Percy French festivals of 1957 and 1958. The Percy French Festival 2014 acknowledges the major support of Excel Industries, Dublin; Fáilte Ireland; Roscommon County Library Services; Roscommon Integrated Development Company; and The Ireland Funds. A full list of our many supporters can be seen at www.percyfrench.ie HEA TI NG Comhairle Chontae Ros Cómain Brochure created, compiled and edited by Kevin Finnerty © 2014 The Percy French Festival registered address: Castlecoote House, Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon INTRODUCTION T he died ‘the sun is God’, French too believed light ing one of these landscapes he too realised H E was the emanation of God’s spirit. A conviction the same devastating savage splendour was P that assumed particular significance in many at work in human existence. Physical, psycho - E R of his paintings after the death of his wife Ettie, logical, alien ating pain were part of the human C Y whom he always referred to as his ‘Ray of Sunshine’. con dition; reason, logic, deduction, analysis F And a belief that continued until his death, reflec - more often than not would come up short R E ted in his epitaph Lead Kindly Light the prayer by with these dilem mas. Answers, he knew, did N C Cardinal John Henry Newman. not always belong to the domain of intellectual H P e r c F y discourse or reasoning, but often to a deeper, F E r e S n Being the wonderful watercolourist he was, his more stable realm; a realm that had more reso - c T h , I new world view resulted in him capturing some nance with matters of the heart than that of the T w V i 5 l A i g breathtaking landscape scenes, all involving the mind. French knew too, truth, in all its com - h L t , w light in all its cycles and many unpeopled. Light plex ity, could only be partly known through 2 a t e 0 r bursting forth or spilling down on what would re-engagement, interaction and experiencing c 1 o l 6 4 o often be regarded as very mundane or ordinary love again . Yet ‘relating’ and ‘communing’ u r , 8 2 scenes, like a simple stream in a wild bog. One would always leave a void, an emptiness, which x 1 6 envisions him cycling around the countryside, also made him acutely aware of his own limita - i n s dismounting suddenly to capture an image that tions as a human being .7 This opened up for has been transformed as it were by a down pour - him the challenge and possibility of a greater The theme of this year’s programme, The French tion of his own insignificance in the greater ing of light ‘as though heaven had opened on and more elevated consciousness and the Paradox , came easily. Like last year, it holds the scheme of things. Instead of the ques tion why , the spot’ .3 ‘lure of mystery’ .8 Mystery as the un known, title of our local hero: further, paradox offers French quickly realised there was a world out - the un fathom able, which would be closely plenty in the way of reflection and debate side his own world of the senses and reason, Alone with nature and immersed in its splendour, accompanied with fear and dread, yet had on many of life’s challenges and has assumed a far greater and deeper reality .1 It was in this French would also be sensitive to its power, its a compel ling allure and attractiveness that immense importance in the philosophical transforming diminution of the perception fragility and the glorious and devastating effects became for him The French Paradox .9 study of religion. of the self that he began to give less and less the seasons had on its course. 4 It was while captur - Kevin Finnerty value and creditability to his own worth, Percy French suffered extraordinary personal creative output, and direction. The result ing 1 Senses and reason are bound to the world of space and time. 5 ‘The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows noth ing, loss with the death of his wife Ettie and their reappraisal and self effacing evaluation evoked To experience a reality other than this self restricting one may we know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart’. only child, which was to have a profound effect a humil ity that manifested in one of his great simply only neces sitate using different words; poetic words for Blaise Pascal, Pensées , No. 277. instance to allow a loftier consciousness impinge on our daily 6 Within two years of his first wife’s death, French married Helen on his life thereafter. He left Ireland and travel - paradoxical experiences; the more pro ductive lives. All of French’s later works reflect this sublime sensibility. Sheldon. They had three daughters, Ettie, Mellie and Joan. led to Wales, returning white-haired almost valuable and easy became his gift, his thinking 2 French often introduced light in his paintings as metaphor 7 ‘In us there is a flowing out into relations, into a world of Persons a year later. His loss had become a transforming enlightened, writings flowed and his direction for the power and presence of life and the eternal. and Names, but there is a dissatisfaction with simply ‘relating experience sparking for the first time in his life oriented by light . 3 Catherine Tynan, ‘Introduction’ in Chronicles and Poems of Percy and ‘communing’ there is in us a nameless abyss, an insatiable an intel lectual crisis of faith. He began to ques - French , ed. Emily de Burgh Daly (Dublin: Talbot, 1925), p72. and insistent desire to return to oneness’. Cyprian Smith, The Way of Paradox: Spiritual Life as Taught by Meister Eckhart , tion deeply his understanding of human exis - Light in all its varying qualities became central 4 Did we ‘tear at the land’ as Michael D Higgins said, effectively p58 (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004). tence and his belief that life was the unique to his work as an artist particularly his tecnique what hashappened our honourable relationship with the land? bestowal of the Divine. with light on the horizon. Like his fellow –witness the dam age inflicted on our beautiful countryside by 8 Ibid ., p30. our plan ners (given permission developers will build on a flood 9 Ibid ., p30. water colourist William Turner, also known plain, it is up to our planners to exercise regulation). French Amidst this soul-searching came the dawning as ‘the painter of light’, whom French greatly afforded great reverence to our landscape. Is our disconnection of a new vision of reality and with it the realiza - admired and who declared shortly before from the land correlated to a spiritual diminishment? Parnell Percy French T Abridged version of Dr Pauric Travers’ talk at the Percy French Festival, 10 July 2013 Young Percy was fond of making caricatures on ‘general uprisings’ and ‘burying the plate’, H reminders of an ever-present agrarian context. He wrote a parody of Cock Robin – E P ‘Who Shot the Agent: I, said the thrush, with an old blunderbuss. I shot the agent’. His E R favourite childhood pursuit was organising games and he produced a family magazine, C the Tulsk Morning Howl/the Trombone of Tulsk . He said he ‘was born a boy and remained Y F one ever since’. R E N Escapist in outlook, Percy avoided the world of business and finance. In contrast, Parnell C H was interested in enterprise but he too was a poor manager of money. Both shared an F interest in sport and played cricket: Parnell was more proficient –he played at Avondale, E S Cambridge and with the Carysforts; French played at school and with the Pakenham T I V Mahons.
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