L'Hay L'Roses, Paris Exhibition
This collection of small works on paper were carried out in and around the start of 2010 when real and final political changes were taking place within Northern Ireland. After weeks of protracted negotiations around policing and justice powers, agreement was finally reached on key issues that will affect the everyday lives on people living here. Her work can be interpreted as depicting a sense of our landscapes as opposed to being representational paintings. The paintings are to be solid and blunt, yet divulge some fragility and mysteriousness. Being abstract paintings, she nevertheless sees them as referring to experiences of the ‘real’.
“My paintings are inspired by the landscape in which I live and work. Landscape works as a metaphor for life and its dramas whether it is uncertain times or if in peace. The physical structures within the landscape are where my paintings are inspired from particularly sheds, barns, roofs, windowsills, walls, bog lines etc and how they come together; how those bodies come together, how they touch, how they separate, how they sit together or not. How they live together in harmony or disharmony. However we don’t exist in isolation and to me my landscape is made up of memories and the ongoing political and social events which make up Northern Ireland. Relating this to the structures of the physical lines and shapes I sometimes write into the paintings or move the pieces of the paintings. The words division, divide, come together, move away, lines, borders, separate, walls all describe the landscape in which we live. I want my paintings to give the viewer some abstracted sense of both the physical landscape and the political/social/economic landscape of Northern Ireland”.
Samantha has recently exhibited this collection of work in Paris on behalf of Omagh District Council. The exhibition was a four person show bringing artists from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Northern Ireland together. A collection of ten paintings on constructed paper based on my landscapes of Northern Ireland: one of division, barriers, abandonment and shifts of change.
This collection of small works on paper were carried out in and around the start of 2010 when real and final political changes were taking place within Northern Ireland. After weeks of protracted negotiations around policing and justice powers, agreement was finally reached on key issues that will affect the everyday lives on people living here. Her work can be interpreted as depicting a sense of our landscapes as opposed to being representational paintings. The paintings are to be solid and blunt, yet divulge some fragility and mysteriousness. Being abstract paintings, she nevertheless sees them as referring to experiences of the ‘real’.
“My paintings are inspired by the landscape in which I live and work. Landscape works as a metaphor for life and its dramas whether it is uncertain times or if in peace. The physical structures within the landscape are where my paintings are inspired from particularly sheds, barns, roofs, windowsills, walls, bog lines etc and how they come together; how those bodies come together, how they touch, how they separate, how they sit together or not. How they live together in harmony or disharmony. However we don’t exist in isolation and to me my landscape is made up of memories and the ongoing political and social events which make up Northern Ireland. Relating this to the structures of the physical lines and shapes I sometimes write into the paintings or move the pieces of the paintings. The words division, divide, come together, move away, lines, borders, separate, walls all describe the landscape in which we live. I want my paintings to give the viewer some abstracted sense of both the physical landscape and the political/social/economic landscape of Northern Ireland”.
Samantha has recently exhibited this collection of work in Paris on behalf of Omagh District Council. The exhibition was a four person show bringing artists from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Northern Ireland together. A collection of ten paintings on constructed paper based on my landscapes of Northern Ireland: one of division, barriers, abandonment and shifts of change.
