Official opening by Neasa Ní Chianáin, Documentary Filmmaker -Thursday 9 th May 7.30 pm
Artist conversation with Jean Ryan, Art Historian – Wednesday 22nd May 7pm- all welcome.
In this exhibition of oil paintings ‘Here is where we meet’ the artist jouneys into the memory and mood of her local landscape. Where Michelle’s watercolours capture the immediacy of swimming and working plein air, her oil paintings are developed with reflection and emotion in the silence of her rural studio.
Through the artist’s imagination we are brought to places of quiet unease. The time of day and viewpoint enhance this sense of otherness reflected in paintings with titles including ‘Night of the Wolf Moon’ and ‘Weasel mink to the kill’ . Sometimes a single person is depicted, absorbed within the frame of the painting looking straight out to the viewer. Perhaps with the awareness that this encounter is a passing moment in time.
Michelle has degrees in Landscape Archaeology and (MA) and Cultural Anthropology (BA) but in her words :
I had to come live in the countryside, walk the roads and swim in the lake at night to ‘feel ‘ landscape as a living agency. A deeply layered ancient place where I see myself and others, but a place we are each just passing through
A preview digital catalogue of available paintings for purchase will be uploaded here on May 5th.
Viewing times in the United Arts Club :
11 am – 5 pm Monday
11 am – 9 pm Tuesday- Friday
Saturdays 5 pm – 10 pm
The United Arts Club
3 Upper Fitzwilliam St.
Dublin 2
01 6611411
office@unitedartsclubdublin.com