![Cian McLoughlin - Poolbeg Power Station [2013]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1651/25778367576_7e4c86cb9e_o.png)
Cian McLoughlin is one of Ireland’s foremost figurative painters. Not only does he use paint to capture a likeness but he also marshals its tactile, malleable properties to convey the turmoil, the joys - the cumulative impact of a life lived. Born in 1977, McLoughlin is an architecture graduate who went on to take a masters in film studies in UCD.
[J Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, New Jersey - Oil on canvas, 61 × 121.9 cm]