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Juan O'Callahan – Artist |
Juan
O’Callahan studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (in
Old Lyme, Connecticut) for several years during the 1990s. He
was, additionally, a director on the Board of Trustees as well
as Secretary of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts.
Juan O’Callahan exhibited regularly as an artist member of the
Providence Art Club, the Mystic Art Association and the Lyme Art
Association. He has exhibited and sold works at several
galleries in New England, and his works are in the collections
of owners from New York, Washington D.C.,
California and in the northeast.
Juan O’Callahan has been active in fine arts’ education in
Ireland. He initiated and funded two art education exchange
programs - between academies in the US, i.e. RISD/Rhode Island
School of Design and the Lyme Academy on the one hand, and
Ireland’s premier art and design college - National College of
Art & Design (NCAD) Dublin, on the other hand – over a period of
five years. He headed up and secured funding for a master
planning study for the complete renovation of Ireland’s NCAD,
and in 2000 Juan was awarded the Honorary Degree of
Associateship of the NCAD.
O’Callahan has his studio and home in Stonington, CT. Juan’s
father, Clinton Clement O’Callahan (a native of Hartford, CT)
was a distinguished American artist (1890 – 1943) who lived and
painted in Paris between the wars, having studied earlier
(before WWI) in Provincetown and New York under Charles
Hawthorne and Charles Noel Flagg.
Some of Clinton O’Callahan’s
paintings from the years 1912 through 1928 may be seen by
following this link.
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Juan’s 2011
Christmas Card painting: "Mexican Flame Leaf’ (Poinsettia)”
Poinsettias originated in Central America/Mexico:
Monks in Mexico have used the flower in conjunction with
Christmas since the 1600s:
Legend has it that weeds placed by a youth next to a
church’s crib, with the infant Jesus, turned to red and
green poinsettias.
Clay
Burkhalter of Stonington, CT competed in the 4,200 mile Mini
Transat single-handed Race from France to Brazil in 2007 in
this USA 575 Acadia, finishing 12th overall. Acadia is a 6.5
meter (21 foot) solo, transatlantic racer designed by his
uncle Rod Johnstone and is now owned
by the
Mystic Seaport.
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To
view/download a slide presentation by Juan O’Callahan, "The
Story of Captain Augustus Agar, V.C., Royal Navy and Sir
Paul Dukes, KBE, British Agent Summer 1919" please
click here
To view/download Juan's Screenplay "C.M.B.
4: GIANT KILLER" please
click
here
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Clay Burkhalter of Ston |
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