Booklet of 10 European Stamps

These Europe Stamps cover postage for letters and postcards to destinations in Zones 2 and 3.
For a full list of countries included in each zone, please refer to our postal guide.

Evie Hone (1894-1955) was one of the most prominent Irish artists of her generation and remains one of Ireland’s most highly regarded artists to this day, whose work can be seen in major galleries and in private collections.

Following a childhood in Dublin, Hone studied art in London and worked in London and Paris. After spending a period in an Anglican convent, she returned to a newly independent Ireland in the 1920s.  Dublin, where Hone worked, was an exciting place for artists at the time. Although Ireland was still developing, by western European standards, artists were doing innovative work in a wide variety of genres. Hone is considered to have been a pioneer of Cubism in Ireland, at a time when this was an innovative approach to art typified by work by Pablo Picasso and other major artists of the day.

But it is as a stained-glass artist, and as a landscape painter, that Hone did some of her finest work, drawing on both Ireland’s rich tradition of religious and mythological iconography, and emerging modernist aesthetics. In 1939, she won the first prize for stained glass at the World Fair in New York, with her piece My Four Green Fields, which can now be seen in Ireland’s Government Buildings.

In honour of Hone’s rich legacy and enormous contribution to art in reland, we have issued a new stamp featuring one of her works, a painting titled Wicklow Landscape. With bold lines and muted autumnal shades, it captures Hone’s mastery of form, her love for Ireland, and her capacity to locate the sacred in the everyday.

Product code 26DBKE