I initially started painting in 2002/3 after a visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. My early works were landscapes of the traditional kind and was quite sucessful in my opening exhibition. I then moved onto pochades, painting plein air after much frustration with cameras and their failure to capture delicate shadow areas. Painting for me has become a process of self-examination and self-discovery. I have learnt a lot through painting. Expressionist art has become for me, the most fitting way for me to best express my personality. I am self-taught. My influences are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and Erich Heckel. I am mostly influenced by the style of 'Die Brucke' and so my work is not typically Irish. I never had much empathy with Irish art in the traditional sense. I am in fact very critical of it. Works involving fiddlers, Guiness, horses and men with flat caps walking donkeys up country lanes are definitely not my cup of tea.
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Size: 16.00" x 12.00"
Price: £50.00
