SNIPPET: To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Evie HONE, an in-focus exhibition of her work began December 2005 and continues until 4 June 2006 at the National Gallery of Ireland. Each aspect of her career is highlighted from her early abstract work through to her later stained glass pieces. Born in Dublin, Evie HONE's first art lessons were with the British artist, Walter SICKERT at the Westminster school of Art, London in 1914. It was here she met her lifelong friend and fellow Irish artist Mainie JELLETT. Six years later, she went to Paris, to be joined by JELLETT. Together they studied there for a year with the semi-cubist painter and writer Andre LHOTE and then with Albert GLEIZES, the well-known abstract cubist painter and theorist. The influence of these artists is evident in HONE's work, which reflects not only the Continental avant-garde ideas of her teachers, but draws interesting parallels with Irish Christian art In the 1930s the style of her com! positions developed and became more figurative in their representation. Of these, her landscape scenes are noted for their marvellous freshness and vitality. Today, her reputation rests largely on the expressive intensity of her stained glass output. She first worked in this media in 1931 and from then, until her death in 1955, she produced a series of splendid windows including the huge, eighteen-light 'Crucifixion and the Last Supper,' at Eton College Chapel and 'My Four Green Fields' now in Government Buildings, Dublin. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Sighle BHREATHNACH-LYNCH, Curator of Irish Art, per Jan-Feb 2006 issue, Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine.