\nMargaret Egan didn\u2019t become a full-time artist until her four children had grown up, but since then she has earned a reputation for work which is both mystical and magnetic, all created in a tiny studio next to her period apartment home in south county Dublin\n<\/p>\n
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Artist Margaret Egan in the hall area of her garden apartment in south county Dublin. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n
\u201cA work of art which isn\u2019t based on feeling isn\u2019t art at all,\u201d said Paul C\u00e9zanne, while Vincent van Gogh said: \u201cI want to touch people with my art. I want them to say \u2018He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Both men have been dead over 100 years and their works are very different to those of artist Margaret Egan, yet she would heartily agree with those sentiments. Margaret also describes her paintings \u2013 which cover a multitude of subjects, including horses, people, music, landscapes, and more recently current events like the conflict in Gaza \u2013 as all about the feelings. In Margaret\u2019s case, she talks about the feelings she has when doing the work and the feelings she wants to evoke in people looking at the finished result. \u201cWhen you feel something about a painting, then it\u2019s speaking to you, even if it\u2019s really horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margaret Egan didn\u2019t become a full-time artist until her four children had grown up, but since then she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,6361,6360],"class_list":["post-347197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-mary-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}