Walking through Paintings

I choose  abstract images to portray the greatness in overlooked details .
I aim to express the beauty in decay by focusing on the minor  and subtle qualities of texture and colour through paint , print , photography and sculpture. By working in a smaller format it invites people to get close , relate and contemplate.

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness....

Some recent work translating from images I took at start of the project . I have enjoyed experimenting with the qualities of  textures and surfaces , as they become brighter and more energetic through painting and sculpture. The end result is nearly unrecognizable from starting point .

Some prints of  sculpture pieces. Macro photographs of altered books , emphasising layers , colour and textures.

Paper Sculptures

Shape and form through use of combined materials.

 

Cermaics

Things that once were.........

Some images taken on route daily around Limerick . Hoping to use these prints to document place and time in a book format.

" There is a crack , a crack in everything , thats how the light gets in ." Leonard Cohen

Wabi Sabi in Urban Layers

During the last few weeks of my project I have become  very interested the concept of Wabi - Sabi ,  and also finding many similarities in the values of my work . The Japanese aesthetic is about the minor and hidden things so subtle and evanescent they are invisible to vulgar eyes. It is a beauty of things imperfect , impermanent and incomplete. It is humble , quiet , intimate , inward-oriented.

Some of my photographs lend themselves well to this concept.

Empty spaces , moody, feelings , eeri , sullen ,romantic, deep , layers , hidden , faded , history , presence , surface , secrets , seeping , melting , torn , ripped , destroyed , decay . , time, quiet , intimate.

Walking through Paintings

A series  of altered photographs and prints using photoshop.