Pastel.Oil.Sculpture.

What captures me? 

After decades of travel to Ireland (the west especially) I realized I bore witness to a history unknown to most Americans. History is alive in Ireland and the poets live in the past/present realm. I have been fascinated with how much of the past is tangible there and have tried to bring alive what I have seen.

Hallowed Ground- The Ireland Project

“Hallowed Ground,” said Shepherd, “is a show about spirit, about inner life.” The exhibition pays, “tribute to the devotion of the faithful and its continuity from the Neolithic Erin to contemporary Ireland,"

Hallowed Ground Installation Admirers:

  • "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And yet again---wonderful"

    Diane

  • "I hear my grandmother singing by the sea"

    Olive Ylin

  • "Your creations fill my heart and bring alive my love for my Irish mother"

    Bob

  • ..."the range of technique and subject matter is astonishing"

    Melindee

  • "How wonderful to be given your long and thorough journey--to an astonishing world"

    Artist and teacher, Pat de Gogorza

  • "I walk with you back into soil, echoing Seamus Heaney, hearing the layers of Irish life bound up with the land for farms and mining, ground down by hard poverty, nothing to eat, yet is is a Celtic Land of fulfilling majesty"

    Reverend Robert Maury Hunsley

  • "Thanks for filling my eyes with images that were the daily fare of my smart, tough ancestors"

    Ron Monahan Thompson

  • "Simply beautiful! A treasure of time and place. God gave Gaal a very special eye and spirit"

    Geordie Evarts

Hallowed Ground Catalog Admirers:

Your utterly magical book has arrived! I love it! Congratulations on this brilliant, gorgeous, enchanting book.

—Sy Montgomery, author and National Book Award finalist.

The images are superb and the producion is first class. I’m very happy to be a part of it.”

—Pat Boran, prize-winning poet and editor of Dedalus Press.

“I wish you the very best with your project. It is near to my heart.”

—Linda Proud, publisher of Michael Shepherd’s poetry with Godstow Press.

Flatworld

"It could seem like a departure because I tend to work in sequential series. "Flatworld" is more intimate and free with unexpected palettes."

Pastel Landscapes

Gaal Shepherd's pastel interpretations of Vermont's peaceful and verdant landscape are beautiful, luminous, and by her own admission and intent, just a bit mysterious.