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Offaly painter Willie Redmond appeared on Sky Arts show \u2018Landscape Artist of the Year\u2019\n<\/p>\n

Willie Redmond, who served for more than two decades with the Defence Forces, devoted himself full-time to art when he retired in 2007.<\/p>\n

The Dublin-based artist\u2019s paintings, including several new pieces, will now be on show at Art Source at the RDS next month.<\/p>\n

Art had been the constant antidote to his demanding day job in helicopter search and rescue as well as air ambulance missions, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall, simple missions are the ones that really stick in your mind,\u201d Mr Redmond said.<\/p>\n

\"Artwork<\/p>\n

Artwork by former Air Corps crewman Willie Redmond will be on show at Art Source at Dublin\u2019s RDS. Photo: Art Source<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren on mercy missions and air ambulance journeys, where a child might need urgent transport to a hospital for a procedure, are the toughest and give you a greater appreciation of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also transported people after car accidents to specialist units dealing with head and spinal injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the service of the islands in adverse weather conditions was a major role \u2013 Go Mairid\u00eds Beo [That Others May Live] is the unit motto applied by the crews,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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With the flying, you were seeing the country through a different set of eyes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The talents of the Offaly man were rewarded earlier this year with an appearance on Sky Arts show Landscape Artist of the Year.<\/p>\n

Mr Redmond, who is originally from Edenderry and now lives in Killester, said he had been painting from an early age and drawing in his spare time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I served in Baldonnel [Casement Aerodrome], it was my focus during downtime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the flying, you were seeing the country through a different set of eyes. It made you more aware of how the landscape worked in terms of weather and features.<\/p>\n

\"Willie<\/p>\n

Willie Redmond on the set earlier this year of Sky Arts’ Landscape Artist of the Year show in Snowdonia, North Wales. Photo: Art Source<\/p>\n

\u201cIn spring, you\u2019d get thundery showers and behind them, it was like a white brush had passed through and made the landscape behind it white with hailstones.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr early-morning flights with amber sunlight on fields and white hedgerow shadows from lying frost,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

His work will now be displayed at Art Source, which will run from November 14-16. It will include new pieces titled Cliff Walk, Howth, and Greenwash.<\/p>\n

Events such as Art Source were opening up the art world to the public, Mr Redmond said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s more of a universal appreciation of art now, awareness is coming through and has given people the confidence to take an interest in it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tickets for Art Source are available through the event\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offaly painter Willie Redmond appeared on Sky Arts show \u2018Landscape Artist of the Year\u2019 Willie Redmond, who served…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[7699,365,362,363,364,366,52,18,117,19,17,87061,4657],"class_list":{"0":"post-147692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-adrianna-wrona","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-dublin","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-rds-arena","20":"tag-sky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115445902215492587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}