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Terrance Keenan


West Cork Artist, Writer, and Zen Buddhist Monk 



Terry Keenan 1 
 
 


I am an Irishman conceived in Paris, born
in Munich, educated in America, who has
traveled over most of the world.  I spend
every moment of my life in the happily hopeless
task of learning how to put into form and words
what cannot be seen or spoken.  Thomas Merton
said poetry was a door to that place about which
nothing can be said.  Virginia Woolf wrote, ‘We
have reached the edge where painting breaks off
and takes her way into the silent land... and all our
words will fold their wings and sit huddled like rooks
on the tops of winter trees.’  I ask why something
must mean?  Does dawn mean?  Do stars? 
A flower?  Broken city streets?  When art devolved
into being just for its own sake, we lost something
vital – a voice for the reality and joy of our being
in the world.  Art emerges from the ash of thought
when it is touched by our need to be affirmed by
reality.  To me the joy of reality subverts our ego’s delusions about reality. 

Joy is the great revolution. 
Reality is the last nostalgia. 
No blame.  Be kind.  Love everything.

Terrance's work can be viewed by appointment at his home studio, Kealties, Durrus, West Cork.
Terrance accepts commissions and can be contacted by email:  saigyo66@gmail.com
  and by phone: 00 353 (0) 27 62889
His work can be viewed online:
Terrance's Website

Read about and view images of Terry's beautiful new book here:
The Blue Cliff Record


His book, Zen Encounters With Loneliness, has been published in a new edition by
Wisdom Publications

A wide selection of his artwork, past and present, is now available at reasonable prices in a wide variety of print and poster formats at:
www.fineartamerica.com

Terry Keenan 2   
   Endless is My Vow  
Spray enamel on special paper    36" x 60+"   



Terry Keenan 6   
Winter Trees, Nos. 1 & 2   
Spray enamel on canvas, each 18" x 48"   
   




Terry Keenan 5   
Nothing To Do   
from The Buji Variations, No 4   
Spray enamel on TYVEK, 36" x 60"   
  
    Terry Keenan 4  
    There is Nothing Wrong With Joy
    from the Enso series
    Encaustic on canvas   36" x 48"
    
 

     Terry Keenan 7
     Catching the Ox
     from The Ten Oxherding Pictures, No 4
     Spray enamel on TYVEK, 36" diameter


     Terry Keenan 3 
     A Boy Running in the Wind
     Feather & ink watercolour on paper, 18" x 24"

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