Art review: Deireadh Fomhair

You’re sure of a big surprise when you walk into the Olivier Cornet Gallery for Eoin Mac Lochlainn’s impressive new show. The gallery is transformed into a virtual forest, fashioned from long strips of subtly painted rice paper hanging from the ceiling. You are invited to walk through it on your way to viewing his watercolours. Mac Lochlainn has changed from oil to watercolours for environmental reasons, and on this evidence he has mastered his new medium. The title of the show is the Irish term for October, and Mac Lochlainn’s aim is both to celebrate the autumnal beauty of our trees — the glorious medley of red, russet, orange and yellow — and to sound a warning about the depredations of climate change. Ten