Artist: Sevan Malikyan
Title: Up By Bay Lough
Medium: Oil Painting on Canvas
Edition: Original, One of a kind
Artwork Dimensions: 35cm x 25cm (14" x 10")
Frame Dimensions: 39cm x 29cm (15.5" x 11")
Condition: Image: Good. Frame: Good.
Gallery Price: £495
About the artwork
Up by Bay Lough captures the elemental beauty of the Knockmealdown Mountains, where the famed corrie lake nestles into the flank of Knockaunabulloga. Sevan Malikyan’s impasto brushwork and dynamic palette evoke the shifting moods of upland Ireland, with a winding path leading through rolling green terrain beneath a sky alive with weather. The painting’s textured surface and gestural energy convey both the physical drama and emotional resonance of the landscape, offering a contemplative glimpse into nature’s layered presence. Signed and dated lower right, the work stands as a vivid testament to Malikyan’s poetic engagement with place.
About the Artist
Sevan Malikyan is a contemporary painter whose work blends expressive figuration with a deeply personal sense of cultural identity. Born to an Armenian–Cypriot family, his heritage informs both the emotional charge and the symbolic undercurrents of his practice. Malikyan’s paintings are built through layered, textured applications of colour, creating surfaces that feel tactile, searching, and alive. His figures often hover between abstraction and recognisable form, capturing moments of introspection, vulnerability, and human complexity. This fusion of cultural memory, emotional depth, and modern painterly technique has established Malikyan as a distinctive voice within contemporary figurative art.
