The story

Some gifts are beautiful. Others carry a place with them.

Blue Shoe Gallery creates framed reproductions of work by Irish and Ireland-based artists — pieces chosen for the way they capture something familiar about Ireland: a cottage at the end of a lane, the color of a harbor, a room that somehow feels remembered.

Each work begins with an original painting, licensed directly from the artist, then printed, framed and carefully finished by Blue Shoe Gallery in Cork.

Art that lets a little of Ireland travel home.

Behind Blue Shoe are Clive Salter and Eileen O’Brien, whose partnership brings together a deep connection to Irish artists with an old-fashioned belief that beautiful things should be made — and presented — properly. They take care of every detail, from reproduction and framing to the final journey from their studio to your door.

A lasting piece of Ireland for the home of someone who holds the island close.