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Seashore – Mixed Media
From “Walking Into Eternity”- a Joycean-Themed Exhibition 9th to 20th June

I originally started “Seashore” when I was living in Bangalore, India (2000 to 2007). It started out as an abstract painting and was one of my first attempts at non-representational art. However, it came to a halt before it was finished and as I couldn’t figure out what to do next! I just kept it in my studio, taking it out from time to time. It took a while for me to realize that it was not going to be resolved by ‘thinking’. It required something more. Often, abstract paintings take on a life of their own and it is up to the artist to ‘listen’ to the painting. In this way the work process becomes an intuitive one rather than a mental one. Once I had grasped this concept I found that this became a normal way for me to work in the future, whether I am working on something abstract or representational.
While living in India I started to experiment with collage, us...

I first became attracted to watercolour over 30 years ago on a painting holiday in Cornwall. I loved the immediacy and fluidity of the medium. When I painted the old rooftops of the quirky yet beautiful old buildings, colours ran together giving an organic feel to the moss and old slates. I felt like I'd discovered a magic colouring book! The watercolour captured the essence of my subjects in an ethereal way. Enchanted by the possibilities of creating a new, dream-like reality within my paintings, I developed my style with an emphasis on the effects I could achieve with Watercolour, by letting the paint and water form patterns in their own way. I love to break the old fashioned rules of the medium, pushing it to its limits. As...