Sat 11 Nov 2002The rain chaserWhen American painter Stuart Shils showed his Co Mayo paintings in the US, it was a disaster. But he doesn't mind - he wants to spend more time in the shifting light, writes Aidan Dunne'Ireland had never been on my agenda," says American painter Stuart Shils. He first came to Ireland in 1994, when Margo Dolan and Peter Maxwell of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation at Ballycastle, Co Mayo, offered him a fellowship.

Sat 11 Nov 2002The rain chaserWhen American painter Stuart Shils showed his Co Mayo paintings in the US, it was a disaster. But he doesn't mind - he wants to spend more time in the shifting light, writes Aidan Dunne'Ireland had never been on my agenda," says American painter Stuart Shils. He first came to Ireland in 1994, when Margo Dolan and Peter Maxwell of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation at Ballycastle, Co Mayo, offered him a fellowship.