Just looking and the gift of presence
JUST LOOKING Just Looking stems from the rapture of attunement: the intimacy of gazing into the eyes of another, knowing that both of you are completely safe. Some years ago,
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This Jungian Journey
At some point I shifted in my listening habits from studying trauma , relationships and therapeutic processes to studying Carl Jung @thisjungianlife. I knew the basics from my Art Psychotherapy
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Lesvos does something to me
The paintings I have made in Greece feel like a turning point. They are less concerned with describing events and more interested in creating a symbolic language through which memory
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Art beyond trauma
Looking back over my recent work, I can see a shift taking place. Earlier paintings were more concerned with trauma as something overwhelming, something that fractured or fragmented the self.
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Obsidian dreaming
click link below to see a brief video of the sculpture turning. IMG_1430 OSSUARIUM of a restless soul Constructed from fragments of ceramic works made over many years, this vessel
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Why depict the DEVIL?
https://www.galleryx.ie/ The devil has appeared repeatedly in my recent work; in ceramic figures, painted plates and small theatrical scenes. Not as a religious certainty, but as a symbolic language through
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Everything and everyone we know is there
Over the past year my paintings have become increasingly shaped by trust in the unconscious. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative or resolved composition, I start with fragments —
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A tribe of characters
These figures developed from an earlier tribe of ceramic sculptures made during lockdown titled Les Saltimbanques, inspired by Picasso’s painting of itinerant acrobats and outsiders living at the margins of
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To be dead and still living
I made my death mask . It’s not completely accurate as the face falls back when laying down changing the physiognomy. I am also not dead or sick. The process
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Fragmentation
I have cast small parts of things I have gathered. They are a little like a magpies selection of attractive parts that hold significance to me. Included are a Greek
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Personal archeology
These are my fingertips ( porcelain casts of) extremely fragile. They look eroded because I made a slip with discarded porcelain . They barely formed the fingers or survived being
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I know I know I know
My art practice is truly diverse . I work intuitively and I’m content to have several areas of work progressing simultaneously. What started as a survival strategy , tucking different
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