| John Skelton |
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| Born 1924. A native of Co Armagh. Many of John’s figures can be read as elegiac: a solitary woman on a sofa, a bather staring listlessly after a swim, a farmer trekking home alone – all caught in a kind of monumental loneliness. Even in his scenes of rural social life – the country fair, the sheebeen – there is at times a sombre note, in a child's sad face, a farmer's stooped back. Yet the vanishing of that world itself carries with it another kind of loss. "The world I see around me is not my world any more," Skelton noted.. " As you grow old, change makes you sad." It is not the fearsome struggle of farmers and fishermen that Skelton venerates. What he values, rather, are those qualities which made them equal to the challenge.
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