The exhibition, which will run from April 26 to June 7 at Kilcock Art Gallery in Kildare, will display 30 paintings out of 58 ‘oil on board’ pieces, a body of work which took six years to create.

Staff at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Bayfield County were among those cut, leaving the park staff, visitors and $55.7 million local economy in something of a holding pattern.

Congressman Tom Tiffany, R-7, was met with opposition during a recent forum in Ashland at which he said he would reintroduce a bill to make Apostle Islands National Lakeshore a national park.