‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is an exhibition that sees artists Tom Rickman, Heidi Wickham and Eamon Regan mimic Sara Teasdale’s six rhyming couplets. A delicate, lyrical poem, it describes nature’s transcendence over man’s devastations, and speaks of the irony that man’s progress has brought to modern society; both its advancement and destruction. While Teasdale imagines a time when mankind has ‘perished utterly’ she moves directly to a calm, confident prediction of ‘soft rains’, and simply asserts that nature will prevail and it will neither ‘care’ nor ‘mind’ about the destruction of mankind.

In this exhibition the artists celebrate Mother Natures enduring strength and her inherent beauty. Placing the spectacular Dingle peninsula forefront, each pay homage to her natural life force and to the many ordinary and extraordinary aspects of primal life. In a series of atmospheric seascapes Tom wonders at our awe inspiring landscape and transforms place into something that goes beyond the visual. Heidi captures our indigenous animals as totemic worldly beings, and Eamon explores humble pre-modern dwellings in paired back architectural paintings that resonate a sense of home and place. Each exhibiting artist’s work instils a sense of Mother Nature’s tranquil essence. They illustrate the importance of sustaining our landscape, heritage and animal life, emphasising an entirety that is uniquely special and which continues to prevail, but reminding us too that –