Pellador Brought This Limerick Painter In On Loan For SS26
Words: Izzy Copestake
Pellador’s SS26 collection is out, but this time there’s a new medium in the mix: oil paint. Enter Sean Ferry, a Limerick-based painter who first met Pellador designer Greg Hall on a night out, where he ended up selling him a painting. After spending the summer painting for the lads at Pellador, Ferry’s work has now become wearable through the brand’s latest summer drop. We had a chat with him
So how did this collab come about?
“It started because Greg (Mr Pellador) wanted to buy one of my paintings. I met him on a night out in Limerick and he told me they’d like to collab with some of my paintings and so I spent last summer pumping out paintings from the studio for the lads at Pellador and I think they used them for the clothes for the SS 26 recent collection.”
“It started because Greg (Mr Pellador) wanted to buy one of my paintings.”
Are you a Pellador fan?
I am a Pellador fan yes, studying in Limerick School of Art and Design, you wouldn’t go a day without seeing a Pellador jumper. I’d be big into Irish soccer as well and that’s one of their themes in the clothes which made me a fan also.
“I am a Pellador fan yes, studying in Limerick School of Art and Design, you wouldn’t go a day without seeing a Pellador jumper.”
How is it seeing people wearing your art?
It is so cool. It’s class to see someone wearing something I painted. I can remember like some individual brushstrokes and it’s just very cool to even have the opportunity to get to do something like this with Pellador as a painter and a student. The first time I saw someone out in the wild wearing it one night in the Commercial in limerick it was so weird and exciting.
“It’s class to see someone wearing something I painted.”
What medium do you work in?
I work in oil paint, mainly on wood sometimes canvas. I like to work wet on wet so you can see the brushstrokes and a bit of texture. I’m very in love with painting it’s like my favourite thing to do always. At the moment a lot of my work is Ireland based; what it’s like to be young in Ireland right now and looking a bit at the Irish language also. I have a lot of grá for my home and I want to show that through the paintings
“I’m very in love with painting it’s like my favourite thing to do always. At the moment a lot of my work is Ireland based; what it’s like to be young in Ireland right now and looking a bit at the Irish language also.”
Where do you get your inspiration?
A lot of my paintings are of my friends out at the pub or just in the apartment. I really enjoy painting portraits and kind of everyday scenes so I think I just kept painting what I liked and eventually my style just developed with the aim of each painting being better than the last. Coming to study in limerick definitely helped my work, with the lecturers and being surrounded by other artists. It also helped in college to look at and explore other artists like Lucian Freud, Alice Neel and of course local Dublin painter Carl Hickey who has given me a few pointers on the Irish painting scene.
Where can people reading this find your work?
My instagram @sean_ferry_art has most of my paintings. Some paintings are in collectors houses which is pretty cool to see them in someone’s home. But when I’m finished college you’ll see them in the national gallery, the Tate, MOMA and all other big museums like that around the world.
