Collection: Seamus Gallagher

Seamus Gallagher is a contemporary Irish painter whose work explores landscape through memory, atmosphere and intuition.

Based in Donegal, his practice is rooted in the surrounding terrain — seascapes, dunes and shifting shorelines — though his paintings move beyond direct observation. Instead, they emerge through a process led by colour, gesture and surface, resulting in works that feel both familiar and slightly removed from a specific place.

Gallagher often describes his process as a conversation with the canvas, where each painting develops gradually, guided by instinct rather than fixed intention. The result is a body of work that sits somewhere between the real and the imagined, capturing the emotional experience of landscape rather than its exact form.

He studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art before completing postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths, London. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, the ICA and the Whitworth Gallery.

Gallagher’s paintings continue to explore the shifting relationship between memory, place and abstraction.