{"id":453391,"date":"2026-05-17T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:29:46","slug":"mary-osullivan-meets-artist-richard-hearns-in-the-burren-for-my-favourite-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453391\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Sullivan meets artist Richard Hearns in The Burren for My favourite room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nSince becoming a full-time artist over 20 years ago, Richard Hearns has lived in many stunning places worldwide, but the Burren in Co Clare captivated both him and his wife Boo and they have created an oasis of calm, creativity and connection\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Richard Hearns in the studio next to his home in The Burren. Behind him are paintings he is currently working on for his forthcoming exhibition in the Cadogan Gallery in London in September. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/N TG HEARNS ROOM 20.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist Richard Hearns in the studio next to his home in The Burren. Behind him are paintings he is currently working on for his forthcoming exhibition in the Cadogan Gallery in London in September. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Burren is a stunning rock-like landscape dotted with a host of trees, including the hazel, blackthorn, hawthorn, ash, holly and willow. But one tree unlikely to be found there is the olive tree, with the exception of one in the garden of artist Richard Hearns and his wife Boo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This warm and welcoming couple live in a stunning restored farmhouse where the walls are hung with wonderful examples of Richard\u2019s work \u2013 works which play with colour and shape and abstraction and fill the rooms, which are deliberately starkly furnished, with warmth, light and drama. It\u2019s a body of work with which Richard has been building an international name for himself \u2013 his works hang in the Sorbonne in Abu Dhabi, his next exhibition will take place in the prestigious Cadogan Gallery in London in September and the one after that will be in Los Angeles in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since becoming a full-time artist over 20 years ago, Richard Hearns has lived in many stunning places worldwide,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2201,93,61,542,60,6360],"class_list":["post-453391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-airbnb","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-mary-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453391","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=453391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}