Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

20 John Shinnors (b. ) ST JOHN’S POINT LIGHTHOUSE + MARS signed lower right on stretcher oil on linen - diptych 25.5 x 53.5cm (10.04 x 21.06in) Provenance: Private Collection An aficionado of lighthouses, John Shinnors is intrigued, his work suggests, by the rigorous, ship-shape maintenance that ensures their pure glowing coat of whitewash and the occasional contrasting gloss black, and also their slightly spooky quality, their air of potential menace. Here, in a typically story-board-like diptych, it is as if the lighthouse’s warning beacon is transmogrified into a vision of the Red Planet as imagined in sci-fi rather than astronomy. €5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)