In Quiet Fields
In Quiet Fields is an ongoing series of digital landscape paintings that reflect a deep, emotional connection to the Irish countryside. Drawing from memory as much as observation, these works explore moments of quiet stillness, fields waiting for weather, distant hills softened by light.
Using painterly textures, muted colour palettes, and stylised forms, the series abstracts familiar rural scenes into something more intimate and contemplative. Each piece captures not just a place, but a feeling: of standing still in a changing landscape, of returning, or remembering.
The digital medium allows for layered mark-making and subtle variations in light and mood, offering a contemporary approach to traditional landscape themes.
The Vee
© Tom Gallahue
The Vee captures a sweeping Irish landscape at dusk, where soft hills and abstracted fields dissolve into quiet light and memory.
The Gate in the Glen
© Tom Gallahue
The Gate in the Glen evokes a quiet pause at the edge of the field, where weather gathers and memory lingers in the stillness of the land.
The Waters Edge
© Tom Gallahue
A quiet lakeside scene where hills, patterned reflections, and a lone cottage evoke stillness and memory. Painterly textures and stylised forms simplify the landscape into something intimate and suspended — a moment between light, land, and emotion.
View From The Top Road
© Tom Gallahue
View from the Top Road looks down across fields and rising hills, capturing the layered quiet of the Irish landscape where light, path, and place converge in soft abstraction.
Cloud Break
© Tom Gallahue
Cloud Break Over the Valley captures a fleeting moment of soft drama, as warm light floods a low sky and layered fields settle beneath the weight and wonder of passing cloud.
Turning into the Fields
© Tom Gallahue
Turning into the Field traces a quiet rural path as it curves through patterned land beneath heavy skies, a moment of calm direction held in colour, shape, and memory.
Hairpin Bend
© Tom Gallahue
Hairpin Bend captures a sudden turn in the quiet rhythm of the landscape, where a lone tree and road markings interrupt the soft sweep of hills under a painted sky.