Welcome to AnamAit

Anam : Ait | Soul : Place

"The spirit of a place/time/landscape can be absorbed into your soul, making a lasting impression on your psyche. Memory of place can be created in a micro second or slowly seep into your senses and last for a lifetime"

"What is landscape but rock, soil, geographical formations, plants, trees? Features record the passage of time, the presence of man. Walls mark boundaries and common ground. Micro community/ecosystem/climate, it is colour, light, shapes and contours that are etched into memory "

introduction

Waterford artist, Christine O'Brien Shanahan, has been painting and creating art works since graduating from art college in 1985.

Christine taught art privately, in secondary schools and on a number of youth programmes until the mid 1990s. With paintings and photographs in private collections locally and abroad, landscape continues to be an integral element in her work, with concepts of place and time recurring.

Recent Exhibition

Unfamiliar Territory - June 2008

“Unfamiliar Territory” is a collection of new paintings at Foley's on the Mall in Lismore, Co. Waterford. Based on travel sketchbooks, this solo exhibition coincides with the Immrama Travel Writer's Festival and continues until August.. more