11 Facts About Tighe O'DonoghueRoss

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss was the recognised hereditary chieftain of the Rapparee Sept the O'Donoghues of Ross.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss was known as Ross, Thomas O'Donohue, O'Donohue Ros, Ros.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss taught at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art for a few years and was then offered the opportunity to teach at his alma mater, but he decided against it and moved instead with his wife and young son to a wilderness cabin in upstate New York in the late 1970s.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss represented Ireland in the Biennale Internationaile de Gravure at the Moderna Galerija Ljubljana.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss moved farther north to the coast of Maine in the early 1980s.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss has experimented in various styles, from veristic to abstract though he has always returned to his own brand of neo-surrealism.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss began stone carving with a pink granite stone he pulled from the ditch of his property in County Kerry and expanded from there.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss has used both conventional and unconventional mediums to fashion his pieces, sometimes using unlikely found objects to create amalgamations of various combinations.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss's work is inspired by the Old Masters and glazing as well as the scumbling technique which results in a wonderful subtlety of surface.

Tighe O'DonoghueRoss's art is rewarding, as all good art is, in accord with what the viewer brings to it.

The term 'visionary' is entirely accurate in so far as Tighe O'DonoghueRoss creates fantastic worlds of his own which reflect not what is but what might be, behind the veil of the reality that we normally experience.