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Inishowen Artist: Brendan Farren

Failte! Welcome! . All the work shown here was created by myself, the Big Green Artist, Brendan Farren. I am based in Greencastle in eastern Donegal, and live in a wee hemp/lime house with my wife Kathleen O’Hara and 3 children.

This website will be a portfolio of work, but is in no way exhaustive, so contact me with any queries you may have. It’s not all Big, or Green, or Art, but that’s my aspiration.

My latest big sculpture was a commission from Emmett Johnston, local Wildlife Officer, for a conference on Basking Sharks in Greencastle at the end of October, 2009. It is made with a willow frame, covered with chicken wire, newspaper and PVA glue, and then painted with acrylic paint. It shows a life-size mouth of a shark fedding with its mouth gaping, catching plankton in its gills. It is pictured here in the foyer of the Fisheries Colege, Greencastle, beside a currach built by Donal MacPolin. The basking shark is now housed in the Maritime Museum nearby.

This is called ‘Return of the Dagda’ and was painted in Glenties in 1999. It was bought by Donegal County Council, and is hung in Buncrana Library.

I would like to publicly thank Phil ‘Pip’ Murray, my cuz and oldest friend, for keeping this website t’gether over the years! I hope you enjoy looking at my work.