Hurley is also a respected songwriter and performer whose songs have been recorded by Irish and American artists and has released three albums of original songs to date.

Hurley’s Painting

Hurley’s painting focuses on those elemental forces that shift and shape the landscape.  Water, whipped and whirled by the wind cascades down barren slopes.  Skeletal trees cling stubbornly to a rock face while reed grasses strain and bend on desperate dunes.  Sand and debris are scattered and beached on a shore.  There is always a howling wind, a threatening storm cloud-chaotic moments captured in freeze-frame.

Hurley is an intuitive painter.  His work is moody and sensuous, suggestive rather than descriptive.  His preferred medium is acrylic on board.  Pigment is worked up into a lavish impasto.  The wooden support is often scored and cut, echoing the way in which man and the elements make their marks on the land.

Selected Collections
 

AIB Group, Citibank Corp, Legal Aid Board, University of Limerick, Brehan Hotel, Killarney, Brandon Hotel, Tralee.

Selected Exhibitions

1987 AIB Group Headquarters, Dublin

1990 Peacock Theatre Gallery, Dublin

2001 Wellspring Gallery, Tralee

2002 Origin Gallery, Dublin

2003 Cill Rialaig Gallery, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry

2003 Belltable Arts Centre Gallery, Limerick

2005 Royal Albert Hall, London

2005 Siamsa Tire Gallery, Co. Kerry

2006 Hungry Hill Gallery, Adrigole, Arts, Adrigole, Beara, Co. Cork

2007 Hungry Hill Gallery, Adrigole, Arts, Adrigole, Beara, Co. Cork

2008 Hungry Hill Gallery, Adrigole, Arts, Adrigole, Beara, Co. Cork

2009 Hungry Hill Gallery, Adrigole, Arts, Adrigole, Beara, Co. Cork