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NESTLED within a gentle valley, between silver hills of karst limestone that rise and fall towards an Atlantic horizon, Richard Hearns grapples with a canvas, stretched to mirror the reach of his body. The artist is shipping his painting, Kārwān, to Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy, where he will present the work before an audience, before it moves to Sotheby’s in London for their Modern British & Irish Art Auction. The auction is serendipitously timed alongside Hearns’ solo-show at the Cadogan Gallery in Kensington, where his most recent body of work, Nomad, went on display on November 16. Hearns was born in Beirut during the civil war, and adopted as an infant by an Irish UN Peacekeeper and his wife. He was raised in Dublin, where he studied Fine Art & Digital Media, before setting-off around the world like many young adults before him. Unlike many others, he continued to wander. With an easel in tow. Hearns has always used his …
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