Description
This vibrant painting features a small stone cottage enveloped in a dense, swirling cloud of colour.
The artist utilized a heavy impasto technique, with oils and acrylics applied thickly to the canvas, creating highly tactile, raised ridges on the cottage roof and walls. The surrounding space is built entirely with dabbed, circular strokes.
In this impressionist landscape, a simple, charming stone cottage sits directly in the centre of the canvas. With it’s heavily textured dark blue roof, sea-green/teal walls, it rests on a strip of unkempt green growth. Instead of a traditional sky or landscape, the house is completely surrounded by an explosion of pointillist dots, blending distinct patches of colour together from a distance.
The center of the painting grounds itself in cool blues and teals, while the surrounding environment erupts in warm, kaleidoscopic colors like orange, red, yellow, pink, and purple. In this mad World, this home seems forgotten to the World, lost in a dense thicket of chaos.
I am a self taught Artist, living in Kerry. I am a published author, with Mercier Press. I am drawn to creative pursuits and live surrounded by nature. It feeds the soul and my creative self, offering back some peace, in what is becoming a truly mad World. I am drawn to nature and landscapes. When I paint, preparing a canvas, I love texture and working with heavier mediums. Some days, I can score and drag through pockets of colour, before I’ve even realized it. I use brushes, palate knives, even my fingers. I love rich colour, like my approach to life, which is multicoloured, full on. As I become more joyous, I work with oils, clay, glass, sand and beads, each used as the moment dictates. I have always very much been driven by my emotions. I paint to capture snapshots or moments in time, offering the chance to connect with forgotten memories and feelings. As an adopted person & neuro diverse, I carry much love for what’s human in all of us, with all that vulnerability & imperfection. I celebrate difference and anything ‘otherlike’. . I believe that is what makes an Artist. It’s sharing a view, in the most honest way we can.
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