Melita Denaro: All This & Heaven Too

5 - 12 March 2025

Melita Denaro
All This, and Heaven Too
5-9 March | Asia House
For 30 years, Melita Denaro has painted the landscape surrounding her childhood home in Donegal. Her intimate, lyrical paintings, reflect the memories and friendships that have sustained her and through which she has found her unique voice as a painter. With more than forty paintings selected by the artist the exhibition previews at Asia House, New Cavendish Street before going onto the gallery from 11-21 March.

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- Melita Denaro, Returning to the house after work, disappointed as it was too misty to see the evening star and there it was above the gate 'sitting at your own house waiting for you' (Mary Frances). 14th March (cat. 25), 2015
- Melita Denaro, 'The moon in its old age, like a drifting dolphin's eye seen through a lapping wave', Thomas Hardy, 4th January (cat. 26), 2019
'Melita Denaro, for me, is one of the handful of genuine personalities in contemporary Irish painting – or indeed, in the whole of the British Isles. Her authenticity, her idiosyncratic lyricism, her highly individual formats, are unmistakable... Denaro has more or less imposed her vision on a whole section of the Irish Coastline' - Brian Fallon
- Melita Denaro, Bernard, the last herdsman 4th January, I liked his company (cat. 30), 2019
- Melita Denaro, He has an unshakeable human dignity about him, George, 10th January (cat. 29), 2024
Whether Melita Denaro is watching a squally cloud, filled with water, change colour as it joins the sea; or a sunbeam illuminating a golden cow in a green corner of a meadow, she brings to her paintings a spiritual intensity that one has seen in the translucent Scapa Flow sunsets of Turner or when a kneeling woman is transformed into the Queen of Heaven by a Tiepolo shaft of sunlight. Always we are given a personal, passionate and thrilling vision of the sublime fusion that takes place in every moment when Heaven meets and then transforms the earth. - Robert Kime
- Melita Denaro, MF saying, 'Women have been dyeing their hair since God was a child.' Later on, 'you're not often wrong but you're right this time' (cat. 38), 2015
- Melita Denaro, Late winter. Thank you Paddy, my life and work will now be dedicated to you. 1st December (cat. 43), 2023
- Melita Denaro, Sean's Evening, 6 December. Rafferty my friend (cat. 9), 2024
- Melita Denaro, JD Recovery Services Buncrana, '24 hours on the pull' (cat. 49), 2020
- Melita Denaro, Caught off guard by beauty, completed by the fire, painted over many years (cat. 35), 2008-2024
- Melita Denaro, Those who have died are not beyond our companionship (cat. 1), 2020
See more available work
- Melita Denaro, If someone asked me if I would ever return to live in Ireland, my answer would be, have I ever left? (cat. 40), 2022
- Melita Denaro, The essence of Venetia never changes and always strengthens me (cat. 6), 2018
Melita Denaro

All This, and Heaven Too

5-9 March Asia House

63 New Cavendish Street, W1G 7LP

Wednesday - Friday, 10am-6pm

Saturday & Sunday: 11am-4pm

Enquiries: mashie@jmlondon.com

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