Although firmly implanted in the unique topography of a particular landscape, Gregory Sheehan’s work would not be described as landscape painting in a geographical, pictorial, or realistic sense.

For more than thirty years, Sheehan has been working with mountain turf collected from blanket bog land. A profound interest in this archaic substance prompted him to delve deeper into the underlying significance of this dark, inspiring, natural phenomenon.

Sheehan investigates the transposed perspective of a landscape, his attention directed toward the innate processes inherent in the landscape's formation and the evolutionary and transformational qualities contained therein. These unique attributes are almost beyond comprehension and just out of sight.


» Turf, or bog-peat is a material which bears witness to cycles of growth, decay and continuous transformations. In other words, a material with an ecological, geological and mythical narrative. Turf speaks to us in quiet unobtrusive ways, perhaps reminding us that we are anchored in and part of a very finely balanced ecological environment «