My art diary: July 2022

2022 Plein Air

Saturdays with "Sketchy People Drogheda"

Louth Plein Air Art Festival:

Day 1: Carlingford

Day 2: Beaulieu House and Garden.

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My Graduation Show 2022: NCAD BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting

‘Four Seasons’

Day by day, year by year, season by season, our planet experiences ongoing concussions of military conflicts.

My work is driven by a desire to tackle political and social issues. My project is a story about humanity, boundaries, war, and refugee crisis. I am happy to have an opportunity to make a positive social impact through my work.

Through the medium of oil painting, collage, and installation I attempt to communicate a sense of the world I inhabit that is both tangible and emotional. Exploring history, identity, and migration, I create abstract scenes where realism meets the uncanny, and the familiar broaches the imaginary. My every vibrant, dream-like image is appearing as a confusion of fact and fiction, real and unreal, known and unknown.

installation "Shopping 2022"

Year 3: collages (digital + painting from collages

Ideas of: Borders, Barriers, Walls, Containment, Migration, Restrictions, Isolation, Freedom, Territories, War, Defence, Contemporary human experiences and relationships.

oil on paper

oil on canvas, 40x30 in

mixed media: watercolour, oil pastels

Year 3 projects: research and process.

oil on paper, A3

Ideas of: Borders, Barriers, Walls, Containment, Migration, Restrictions, Isolation, Freedom, Territories, War, Defence, Contemporary human experiences and relationships.