The earth, locus of growth and renewal are the inspiration behind this new body of oil paintings on canvas and on wood, alongside the innate instinct in all living things to grow, to thrive, to flourish, to reach upward. The paintings attempt to capture the experience of living in this world- a fragmented, complicated place of growth and collapse, influenced by a multitude of opaque and complex human agendas. The paintings strive to break free, to upend their structured rootedness. Spaces of open air, can be glimpsed through geometric slabs, while plants drift free of their moorings. Many of the plants are painted in exuberant colour, a celebration of the ability of the cnatural world to recover and thrive, and the crucial role it can play in healing a broken humanity.
Is é an talamh, locus fáis agus athnuachana an inspioráid taobh thiar den chorp nua seo de phictiúir ola ar chanbhás agus ar adhmad, in éineacht leis an instinct dúchasach i ngach rud beo chun fás, chun rathú, chun bláthú, chun teacht suas. Déanann na pictiúir iarracht an taithí a bhaineann le maireachtáil sa saol seo a ghabháil – áit ilroinnte, casta fáis agus titim, faoi thionchar an iliomad clár oibre daonna teimhneach agus casta. Déanann na pictiúir iarracht briseadh saor, a bhfréamhacha struchtúrtha a chur i bhfeidhm. Is féidir spásanna amuigh faoin aer a fheiceáil trí leaca geoiméadracha, agus plandaí ag sruthú saor óna múrála. Tá go leor de na plandaí péinteáilte go h-ildaite, ceiliúradh ar chumas an domhain nádúrtha téarnamh agus rathú, agus an ról ríthábhachtach a d’fhéadfadh a bheith aige i leigheas daonna briste.
Vignettes depict scenes of captured beauty and simplicity, much like an endeavour to simplify and structure our lives and desires, while the box like structures that contain these snapshots split and crack. Oil painting on canvas rooted on the floor draws the viewer in to its dark vortex as prickly plants reach from the depths, a visceral reminder of what is beneath our feet. Sea thrift drifting through a triptych give a sense a floating free, uprooted, adrift and floating like seeds through the air while soft bog cotton blows above collapsed slabs on a shore. These paintings contain signs of global fracturing and collapse, throughout which plants strive ardently toward the air.
Léiríonn srath íomhánna – gafa i mboscaí atá ag scoilt agus briste – radhairc d’áilleacht agus simplíocht. Chuireadh na híomhánna seo gafa sna boscaí id’ chuimhne ar iarrachtaí ár saol agus ár mianta a shimpliú agus a rialú. Tarraingíonn péintéireacht ola ar chanbhás fréamhaithe ar an urlár an breathnóir isteach ina vortex dorcha de réir mar a shroicheann plandaí dealgach ón doimhneacht, meabhrúchán a rachadh i bhfeidhm ar dhuine go láidir ar a bhfuil faoi bhun ár gcosa. I bpictiúr tripticne, tá plandaí cósta na farraige ag gluaiseacht tríd an aeir, ag séideadh os cionn leaca briste.. Tá comharthaí de bhriseadh agus de thitim dhomhanda sna pictiúir seo, ar fud a ndéanann plandaí iarracht go díograiseach i dtreo an aeir.
