Welcome to AnamAit

Environment

Awareness of place and responsiblity for "eco footprint" is a theme that underlies the Posted Submission DRIVER? Passenger? Bystander?, April 2007.

Environment: having explored installation art, environmental art, and performance art in the 1980s and early 90s, creating a garden, a natural environment, around our home and office is an integral part of my creative work and a source of subjects.

Installation

Garden Wall : shell, mirror, tile | 2002

Shells collected over twelve month period. final piece based on series of shell pattern variations created over three month period. Combining celtic triple spiral with chinese symbols of turtle, tiger, dragon and phoenix, creating installation - mural to promote balance and harmony in area of garden that experiences strongest winds. Creating a natural backdrop beside "woodland" area that would create a link between house and garden.

Seasons

The changing seasons bring new colour, texture and pattern as well as concepts associated with Solstice and Equinox. 16 years of organic gardening has strenghtened a life long awareness of daylight, wind change, first frost, first growth.

What I think, perceive, study, consider, choose to ignore are as much part of the colour, pattern, texture and line scratched into the surface of the canvas.

Walls

The boundaries created by habitation and agriculture have been a regular theme since 1980's. recurring in photographic work as well as field notations and in particular road journeys throughout Ireland. Only in Sicily, 2007, have I seen walls similar to Irish stonework and pattern.