Afloat.ie: 24th November 2025, by WM Nixon
A product of the Tory Island School of Painting. Jim Dixon’s 1967 impression of Wallace Clark’s Wild Goose arriving in the old harbour on Tory Island
Is this an answer to one of your many Christmas present problems? Admittedly, with an auction guide price of €6,000 to €8000 at Whyte’s Auctioneers in Dublin, December 1st, 2025, this nautically-themed primitive work from Jim Dixon of the Tory Island school of naïve painting founded by Derek Hill would not be regarded by most of us as a cheap and cheerful solution to the Christmas challenge.
But when we remember that it might go up in value over the years, and add to that the fact that it combines so many narrative threads, then it might even qualify for the elite category of “Christmas Present for Myself”.
Please click here for more of this story by WM Nixon for Afloat:
https://afloat.ie/port-news/island-news/item/69513-tory-island-painting-brings-many-threads-together
