“These atmospheric pieces hold a melancholic beauty, highlighting the landscapes’ fragility; encouraging us to protect and nurture rather than destroy and edit.”
Kate Reeve-Edwards
My work is an attempt to create stillness, to pause and reflect.
I create atmospheric pieces which are an expression and meditation on landscape. These are not literal depictions, more an emotional response to landscape. Using oil on linen and watercolour on Japanese Washi paper, I try to covey the transience and impermanence of place.
The titles of the paintings such as “How Silently Comes the Water” are inspired by lines of poetry or are purely in response to nature observed, such as “Sea Light”.
I am interested in the expression of inner psychological states as expressed through the depiction of landscape. I am inspired by stillness, space, texture, colour, light and the pure materiality of paint interacting on the surface of a canvas.
I hope that the viewer of my work, can feel the beauty and power of the landscape and reflect on its preciousness and fragility.
I hold a BA (Hons) Fine Art and MA from the UK and Post Graduate Diploma from the National College of Art, Dublin.
For more information about my work and sale prices I can be contacted by email at michelle@lucca.ie
My studio is in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.