AnamAit

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Anamáit

AnamÁit refers to ait:place and anam:soul, the influence that the place you are in has on your state of being ...

As a web site designer I regularly advise clients to "go for it, make a start and get your web site out there, don't wait until it is perfect" ... like the mechanic's car this site is at times a bit neglected!!

on going series of works

-> Last in series of work based on 2006 journey to Tuscany
-> Series of abstract images based on sub tropical rainforest located in dormant volcanic crater deep in the Dividing Range, NSW, Australia.
-> Series of paintings based on journeys across Ireland
-> Compiling a collection of poetry, inspired while painting, taken from various notebooks and sketchpads.

-> encounter with Beuys, 25 years on, reflections on perfermance and installation work

colour line texture pattern

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. Line and patterns have been recuring themes since 1970's. Line in studies and sketches become important elements in later paintings read more

time

The changing seasons bring new colour, texture and pattern as well as concepts associated with Solstice and Equinox. An interest in standing stones alignments inspired 1984 thesis on neolithic shamanism and regularly visits to local sites at the solstices. read more

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. read more

Rosetta

Rosetta Stone : Started 2004, language, understanding and meaning ... read more

Collaborative Work

Dialogue : with sound artist miXile | January 2007 - Extended Blue, Subterannie - ongoing read more

Exhibitions

Index Gallery, Waterford- Novemeber 2008

Live / Performance Art

Developing work based on themes evolving from rosetta. read more

Immrama

journey to an island read more

Autumn Road

dusk on the terrace detail

woodstown

Winter Solstice

Garden Wall

Journey West : 2004

treeline out of boulder

detail dialogue 2

noosa sunrise 1.3

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