Michelle Boyle is an artist and curator with a studio in the rural landscape of Virginia Cavan Ireland and a developing base in Mumbai India. She works in paint more recently incorporating photography, video and journalling into her studio and landscape work.

She explores topics including family, identity, place and home through the lens of her cross cultural inheritance and her lived daily experience. She swims year round in her local lake, Lough Ramor and ‘In the shock of cold, suspended in water I feel completely present and alive, water is the metaphor for my artistic journey ‘

Boyle’s paintings invite the viewer into her interior reflections through a visual aesthetic described by critics as “sensitive , powerful and poetic”

In our modern lives, we’re losing our connection to the land, we cement over it and try to control and tame the bits we allow to exist. We’re losing sight of how essential nature is to our very well-being. I feel this wonderful collection of paintings, is a call to stop for a moment and marvel at the beauty we still have out there. It’s a call to slow down and immerse ourselves in our waters, our woodlands, our mountains, our landscapes. Allow ourselves to be held  by nature, allow ourselves to disappear into the majesty of it and as Michelle so eloquently puts it, ‘ see the whole world in one place’.

Neasa Ní Chianáin 2024 – Documentary Filmmaker