If you have any news about Ian or his artwork and would like to share it, please feel free to add a comment in this section.
Welcome to the news section
February 1st, 2009Featured Painting for July 2010
July 8th, 2010This months featured painting is entitled “Calling” from 1985. “Calling” was Ian’s rendering of a Caravaggio painting. This was the painting where the name Sinister Men Series came about from Nick Treadwells description of the men looking sinister. Nick Treadwell was Ian’s UK based art dealer in the 1980’s.

1985, Calling, Acrylic on canvas, 96cm x 112cm
Featured Painting for June 2010
June 1st, 2010This months featured painting is entitled “Horse and Groom”. The owner of this painting came across the website via Wotartist while updating her profile/gallery on that site and contacted Ian’s website with new information about the painting including the correct date as 1985 and the correct dimensions as 96cm x 85cm. Both the gallery and archive have now been updated with these new details. The painting was given to the owner as a 40th birthday gift and was purchased from The Nicholas Treadwell Gallery around 1991. The painting resides in London in the owners personal collection.

1985, Horse and Groom, Acrylic on canvas, 96cm x 85cm
Featured Painting for May 2010
May 5th, 2010This month’s featured painting is a new painting added to the archive this month that is in the collection of Nick Treadwell (Ian’s former London art dealer) who currently resides in Austria. Please visit his new website Treadwell Gallery whereby he has his complete collection of art online including his collection of Ian’s work.

1985, Female portrait, Acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
Ian’s “Speaking on the Telephone” used for “A Poem and a Pint” postcard by Gill Nicholson
May 3rd, 2010
Featured Painting for April 2010
April 1st, 2010This month’s featured painting is entitled ”The Visit”. The owners of this painting contacted the website less than a week after it was launched in November 2008. They had bought the painting in New York City in 1986 at an art fair from Nick Treadwell long before Ian ever lived in New York City. Oddly enough, they lived about 30 blocks away from Ian yet neither knew of each other.
Another odd fact about this painting is that an old girlfriend of Ian’s recognized the chair in it as belonging to her grandmother and forwarded me a photo Ian had taken of her in that same chair!

The Visit, 1985, Acrylic on canvas, 152cm x 152cm
Ian’s images listed on Saatchi Gallery Online
March 15th, 2010
1983, Man and Mirror, Lithograph
Please visit Ian’s page on Saatchi Gallery to view 20 of his images plus biography. Many of these are considered some of his finest work.
Featured Painting for March 2010
March 10th, 2010This section is now going to feature one of Ian’s paintings each month besides other noteworthy news regarding Ian and his work. Each month an image of a painting will be chosen from either unknown ones that surface or from those currently residing in the archive. This would be a good time to stress if you own work of Ian’s, to please submit it to this website. The general idea is to have all his work gathered in one place on the internet and where better than his memorial website where over 1600 are already listed! Please see the Contact section of the website for instructions on submitting images.
This month’s image is one of my favorite painting of Ian’s from the early 1990’s entitled “Visionary Horse and Groom”. I am featuring this as the first in this series as the owners of the painting contacted the website last week! The painting resides in Belfast, Northern Ireland where it was sold in the late 1990’s. It was featured on a opening exhibition card and was one of Ian’s favorites. This painting was also on Ian’s memorial card and was chosen because of its ethereal quality and seemed very appropriate.

Visionary Horse and Groom, 1991, Oil on canvas,
Owner of “Man Holding Picture” located
February 15th, 2010
1985, Man Holding Picture, Acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 50cm
The owner of this painting who bought it in 1986 has contacted the website with details of the painting that were previosuly unknown including the dimensions. The beauty gallery and archive has been updated with these new details.
In addition, the image was chosen by Art Quotes fine art directory as an avatar for the website listing.
Ian Darragh’s “Figure at a Window” to appear on cover of new Richard Burgin novel
January 17th, 2010
1984, Figure at a Window, Acrylic on canvas
Ian’s “Figure at a Window” will appear on Richard Burgin’s new novel entitled “Rivers Last Longer”.
Tribute to Ian by Yvonne Alexieff
December 31st, 2009
1989 Les Musiciens des Rues by Yvonne Alexieff
Please visit Yvonne Alexieff’s slideshow whereby Yvonne has taken the above image she did of Ian 20 years ago and linked some of her current work involving the cirucus with it.
Please visit L’univers circassien d’Yvonne Alexieff
