Ireland McNichol: "I traveled to Ireland for the first time in 1994. I was particularly attracted to the Connemara region of the west coast of Ireland. I was drawn to the dramatic, flat, open spaces of the boglands which stretch infinitely to the horizon, until meeting the towering forms of the Twelve Pins Mountains. The region is rugged and mysterious and continually shrouded in a cool Atlantic mist." Seven large canvasses are in this series. Four are from the Twelve Pins Mountains: "Connemara," "Heartland," "Valley of Kings," and "Leaving Connemara." Two are from the Atlantic Coast where fingers of land extend into the ocean, reaching for America: "The Sky Road" and "Where the Sky and Beach Meet." The seventh, from Roscommon County, is "Distant Light."