field Series
2023
My formative experience was growing up in the Irish countryside, among an extended family of farmers. They had highly developed skills in repair and maintenance, a knowledge of how things grew, animal husbandry, knitting, and sewing. They were craftspeople. These everyday activities are my sense of life.
There was an annual repetition too. A cycle of sowing and harvesting, animals born and reared, then gathered up and taken to market. The vagaries of time and weather, the subtle environmental changes each year, all impacted the harvest’s texture and character.
My work and process, its repetitive nature, the subtle variations I make, the time to grow and ripen, all parallel that farming life.
The series recalls my sense of land farmed.
sand end, 2023. 71”h x 79”w x 4”d 108cm x 200cm x 10cm unbleached canvas
fairy now, 2023. 40”h x 91”w x 6”d 101cm x 231cm x 15cm unbleached canvas
the plantin,, 2023, 75”h x 56”w x 8”d 190cm x 142cm x 20cm unbleached canvas
long hill, 2023, 73”h x 42”w x 12”d 185cm x 107cm x 30cm unbleached canvas
half moon, 2023, 57”h x 75”w x 12”d 145cm x 191cm x 30cm unbleached canvas
peg’s field, 2023, 34”h x 80”w x 6”d 86cm x 203cm x 15cm unbleached canvas
front door field, 2023, 34”h x 72”w x 7”d 86cm x 183cm x 18cm unbleached canvas
