Michelle Boyle is an artist and curator with a studio base in the rural landscape of Virginia Cavan Ireland and a developing base in Mumbai India. She works in oil and watercolour paint more recently incorporating photography, video and journalling into her studio and landscape practice. Her work draws on her everyday encounters of people and place inviting the viewer into a visual aesthetic described as “sensitive, powerful and poetic”.

The subject of her art practice is increasingly the profound, symbiotic and ancient connection humans have to water and our responsibility to the pressures we burden it with. She swims year round in her local Lough Ramor and believes the experience of immersion is central to creativity, water knowledge and re-connection to our bodies and to nature.

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