Martin Finnin
Truce
Truce
Oil on canvas I 40 x 60 cm
A simple scene of a tiger and a bird, drawn like notes on a chalkboard. Tiger and Bird sits somewhere between observation and memory.
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Artwork Details
Oil on canvas
40 x 60 cm
2019
Signed on the front | signed and dated on the reverse
Unframed
Payment & Purchase
This listing is for a €1,000 non-refundable deposit toward the full price of €4,500. Once your deposit is complete, the artwork is marked as sold and reserved exclusively for you.
You will receive an order confirmation email with full details of your purchase, and we’ll be in touch within 24 hours to arrange payment of the remaining balance by bank transfer and to confirm delivery.
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Delivery
Delivery within the Republic of Ireland is included at no additional cost.
Each work will be carefully prepared and delivered after the exhibition closes on 27 October.
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Provenance & Copyright
All artworks are sold directly by Martin Finnin and come from the artist’s studio, not through resale.
Purchase of an artwork does not include the transfer or licensing of copyright, which remains with the artist.
Truce
Each painting carries its own journey - here’s a glimpse of how this piece unfolded.
After painting in Berlin, I returned to Ireland to find my studio and the derelict yard beside it taken over by flocks of birds washing in puddles and filling the air with noise. Having spent months immersed in the quiet museums of Berlin, this sudden liveliness felt like a shock. Around that time, I noticed how cafés wrote their menus on blackboards each day, and that inspired the simplicity of this image.
These two canvases (this one and its companion piece with two birds) evolved slowly over four years. They’re painted on rough, tightly woven unprimed cotton, first stained with oil washes from both sides, then worked and reworked through layers of abstract and figurative studies. One day, back in Ireland, I painted over everything in green and black, and soon after, the tiger and bird appeared.
