{"id":19712,"date":"2025-08-24T06:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19712\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:13:09","slug":"artist-leah-hewson-im-a-39-year-old-single-woman-there-have-been-sacrifices-eleanor-mccaughey-described-her-paintings-as-her-children-that-resonated-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19712\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Leah Hewson: \u2018I\u2019m a 39-year-old single woman \u2013 there have been sacrifices. Eleanor McCaughey described her paintings as her children. That resonated with me.&#8217;"},"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\">\nShe has stepped out of the shadow of her famous family\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Leah Hewson in her Dublin studio. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/64670024-8b02-4e39-b3ba-94b62264f8f2.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 Leah Hewson in her Dublin studio. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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 year, at the Guinness Storehouse, hundreds of thousands of visitors will view a commissioned artwork by Leah Hewson. Known for her \u00addynamic paintings, Hewson says her public work \u2013 the installations and \u00admurals at Facebook, Kicky\u2019s restaurant, the \u00adStorehouse, private commissions \u2013 is always separate from the paintings.<\/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)\">\u201cIt\u2019s probably the opposite, because I \u00adcreate the painting not knowing where it\u2019s going to go, what it\u2019s going to be, whereas the computer-generated commissioned work has to be laid out,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She has stepped out of the shadow of her famous family Artist Leah Hewson in her Dublin studio.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,3377,366,18,117,19,17,17175,3380],"class_list":{"0":"post-19712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-bono","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-niall-macmonagle","19":"tag-u2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712","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=19712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}