Mabel Young (1899 - 1974), Cherry Blossom Alicia Boyle this spade really delivers

this spade really delivers

Title written on mount lower right

Painted during 2025

They have been made in the same way to the same design for thousands of years

Mabel Young (1899 - 1974), Cherry Blossom Alicia Boyle this spade really deliversCherry trees in bloom in a wild landscape of dry stone walls and gorse bushes, also in bloom. The dramatic mountain in the background is most certainly the Sugarloaf. Mabel Young lived in Kilmacanogue, Co Wicklow for much of her life, and Wicklow landscapes feature prominently in her work. In fact, the first work she exhibited at the RHA (1928) was entitled 'Sugar Loaf Mountain'. A great interpreter of trees, Mabel Young painted them with movement and