PAREIDOLIA PROJECT
These works began as a personal project, influenced by the natural landscape around me.
Since moving from the city to the County Down countryside, the way we live has changed completely.
I’m spending much more time outside. I’ve planted over 300 native Irish trees on our land, and being out there has been good for my head. That change has gradually found its way into my painting.
Pareidolia describes our instinct to find familiar forms in unexpected places. In these paintings, faces, figures and shapes emerge from layers of colour, gesture and botanical abstraction. They appear, dissolve and re-form as your eye moves across the work.
What one person sees might be completely different from what someone else finds. Our memories and experiences become part of the image, shaping what we recognise and what feels real to us.
That’s something I want to explore further, the mind searching for order, memory and recognition within something inherently chaotic.
It’s a different direction for me, and one I’ll continue alongside my other work. I’ll make just a few paintings each year, with an occasional print release, and I wanted to start sharing this part of the studio with you.
Thanks for your support as always
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