“Thomas Foley” 35 cm x 25 cm oil on canvas, 2002
http://www.firefighterthomasjfoley.com/
For the Irish Arts Center I also made portraits of lost Irish American firefighters. I had worked on them for months. It was a strange feeling working on portraits of these beloved men and young guys. You feel you know them and get a sense of who they were, day in and day out studying the smallest details of their faces. Sometimes a family member would talk about them. Everything helped with the process. I found it difficult to do the paintings of Kevin and Tommy as they were just so young and starting their lives. Kevin was 28 and recently married. Tommy was just 32. Timothy Stackpole was especially difficult because he was a devoted family man with a wife and 5 kids and had such a kind face. The portrait that was the easiest was Fr Mychal. He really had had a great life, was a good age and his people were from the same county as my grandfather. There was a lightness about him that truly shown through and I could feel it when I painted him.
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“Timothy Stackpole” 35 cm x 25 cm oil on canvas, 2002 http://www.voicesofseptember11.org/dev/memorial_content.php?idbio=1329644215&idcontent=290294204 |
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| “Kevin Reilly” 35 cm x 25 cm oil on canvas, 2002 http://www.voicesofseptember11.org/dev/memorial_content.php?idbio=977844370&idcontent=513264157  Seven Dolors is a dance piece by Katherine Helen Fisher. She lost her uncle Andrew Fisher in the 9/11 attacks and developed this piece as a moving tribute. .  Link to the film Seven Dolors: http://elirarey.com/movies/7dolors/ |
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