Mark O'Brien Paintings

Mark O'Brien Paintings After a 30 year hiatus I have started painting pictures again, playing with colour

What has your art collection taught you?Not about art history or markets but about your own taste, your spaces, the way ...
23/06/2026

What has your art collection taught you?

Not about art history or markets but about your own taste, your spaces, the way you spend your attention.

"Garden with Celtic knot" is part of an ongoing conversation on my side of the screen.

I would genuinely like to hear what you have learned.

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

Happy Father's Day. To the fathers, the father figures, the ones who showed up in whatever form that took. Cheers.Featur...
21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day. To the fathers, the father figures, the ones who showed up in whatever form that took. Cheers.

Featuring "Awens in the garden" today in the gallery.

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

When people move house, they make a hierarchy without realizing it. Some things get donated, some get stored, some make ...
19/06/2026

When people move house, they make a hierarchy without realizing it.

Some things get donated, some get stored, some make the journey regardless of whether they make logical sense in the new space.

Art almost always travels. It is rarely the practical choice that moves with you. It is the things that meant something. Has that been true for you?

What have you moved more than once, and would "Garden With Celtic Knot Horseman Landscape" make that list?

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

People sometimes feel they need to be able to articulate why they want a particular work before they are allowed to buy ...
17/06/2026

People sometimes feel they need to be able to articulate why they want a particular work before they are allowed to buy it. That is not how it works.

The attraction does not need a defense. You do not have to be able to explain Brigids Cross In Garden to someone who asks; you just have to know it belongs in your space.

The explanation, if you want one, tends to arrive later on its own.

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

Every work that reaches a collector is the result of many decisions, including the decision not to show what came before...
16/06/2026

Every work that reaches a collector is the result of many decisions, including the decision not to show what came before it.

The finished work is not the whole story. It is the end of a longer, quieter process that most collectors never see.

When you live with Blueness, you are living with the result of the artistic process and all that comes with it.

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

Interior designers often talk about sightlines. They're the natural path your eye travels when you enter or move through...
12/06/2026

Interior designers often talk about sightlines. They're the natural path your eye travels when you enter or move through a room.

Most people never think about this consciously, but they feel it. Art placed directly in a sightline changes a room immediately.

Placement is as intentional as the work itself.

Where would you put Tridex; Homage to Dune?

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

A lot of people hold off on collecting art because they rent and feel uncertain about committing to walls they do not ow...
10/06/2026

A lot of people hold off on collecting art because they rent and feel uncertain about committing to walls they do not own. But art does not belong to a wall. It belongs to you.

Renting is not a reason to live with bare walls. It is a reason to collect work that matters enough to keep moving (and growing) with you.

"Awens in the garden" and my other work are connected to the people who love them, not just the places they're displayed.

https://www.markobrienpaintings.com

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