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Portals Oil on canvas • 40" x 60"

Connemara Reticulated Sunlight Oil on canvas • 48" x 60"

Remembering Clare Oil on canvas • 48" x 60"

Touch Oil on canvas • 40" x 60"

County Mayo Highpoint II Oil on canvas • 60" x 48"

County Mayo Highpoint III Oil on canvas • 60" x 48"

Melancholy Sky Oil on canvas • 40" x 60"

Sojourn Oil on canvas • 24" x 48"

Jessamine Station Road Peripheral Oil on canvas • 48" x 54"

Saint Brendan's Mountain Oil on canvas • 24" x 36"

About the Artist

Chris Segre-Lewis is a professor in the Art Department at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife.

Artist's Statement

“Sojourn”

In this body of paintings I am comparing the Irish landscape to that of Central Kentucky. After having spent nearly four months in Ireland in the summers of 1997 and 2007, I began to consider the visual similarities between the two locations. Characteristics like the rolling green landscapes and dry stone fences bridge the two vistas’ appearance but also the geographic movement of the Irish people to America after the Potato Famine of the late 1840’s. This theme is expressed most directly in the title painting Sojourn in which the two specific places of Jessamine County Kentucky and Saintfield Northern Ireland are juxtaposed and apparently merging into one another. Thus, the movement of the two landscapes into one another becomes a metaphor for my travels as well as the immigration of the Irish people from the home of the old country to that of the new world.
While comparing these two landscapes, I have also become concerned with issues of stewardship and conservation of our countryside. In the last ten years I have seen both the farms of the Bluegrass and the countryside of Ireland overtaken with development. Whether or not this “development” happens in the name of “progress”, it saddens me to see the indiscriminate destruction of a landscape’s old growth vegetation. It is my belief that it is possible for man and nature to coexist respectfully. I hope viewers will consider the value and necessity of preserving green spaces, not only for the perpetuation of the environment but also for the uplifting of our souls and spirits to God through our interaction with beauty in nature.

Chris Segre-Lewis, 2008