I was delighted to have been selected for a solo show in the Ashford Gallery of the Royal Hibernian Academy. This was my first solo exhibition after graduating from the National College of Art & Design in 2000.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
52 “characters” – each of these pieces is 1 centimetre wide. They were interesting source material for larger abstract paintings – like the two below. The title of the exhibition is the Irish word: Lorg which translate as ‘print’ (or fingerprint) but also means ‘search’.
Each of the oil paintings was 60 x 60cm. They were hung together on one wall of the gallery as one piece entitled: “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine”, an old Irish proverb which tranlates as : We live in each other’s shadow
I was asked for 50 words to explain myself – so here they are: “Shades of colour awake in the soul emotions too fine to be expressed in words”, Wassily Kandinsky (and) “I am mysteriously involved in what appears to be a very mundane kind of stuff… you work at it day after day and then suddenly, something happens, a revelation”, Tony O’Malley. These two quotes explain my need to paint.
Scéalta Ealaíne 