STACKED 10 – sewn painting (stretcher framed)

I am an artist living in Furbo, Co. Galway on the West Coast of Ireland.
I love line, shape, colour, & texture. I see soft geometry everywhere! I am influenced greatly by artists who practice varying degrees of abstraction from Matisse to Georgia O’Keefe, Frederick Hammersley to Lee Krasner amongst many other influential abstract artists. 
My work begins with a playful technique I used as a child of either, ‘taking a line for a walk’ or ‘cut & paste’ – it all takes off from there.
The theme or intention of the line & shape is there from the start – the conscious adult mind draws the line, or cuts the shape, but the childhood memory of play keeps the line & shapes uninhibited and brings the work to life with colour.
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for” – Georgia O’Keefe