“Tadhg McSweeney has a sophisticated simplicity in his approach to the visual world that I would call reverence,” says Irish visual artist Alice Maher.
McSweeney, who passed away in 2018, employed “no flourishes or adornments, no extra brushstrokes, no showing-off in the way he paints, just a distilled purity of image that is very hard to achieve in a world full of noise and activity”.