Art: Felim Egan

Kerlin Gallery, Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2. www.kerlin.ie, 01 670 9093 until 10 February

Felim Egan, who began exhibiting in the late-1970s, is an Irish master of abstract art. He studied his craft in Belfast, Portsmouth and London, and now lives and works in Sandymount, Dublin. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and the Sao Paulo Bienal in the 1980s and had major exhibitions at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Stedelijk in Amsterdam in the 1990s.

Egan's hometown of Sandymound is a clear influence in his new work, now showing at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. But he also looks above the horizon to the infinite space of the sky and beyond. The viewer finds himself looking at the earth from a great distance while retaining a close-up focus on the tiniest grains of sand. The new work is more engaged in light, exploring different times of night and day.