Amy Quinn; Fine Art: Textiles

“The Face Fabric” 

Reflecting a personality through one image by really examining facial expressions and colour has been my main aim for the past year. Translating My portraits through my chosen medium of textiles has been difficult but extrmemly rewarding. By working solely with machine embroidery I have found a way of translating my paintings onto fabric and managed to maintain the soft colours and blends that I took from my paintings.

Rosaleen Tanham; Art & Design: Paint (Part-Time)

"My home place, the West of Ireland, is very beautiful.  It is my sense of this place that anchors, grounds and feeds me.  Nature is my inspiration. The always fascinating seascapes, skyscapes and landscapes.   Constantly changing, transmuting, recycling through the seasons, birth, death, regeneration.  Constantly surprising –  shapes, colours, forms, lines, patterns.  Endlessly entertaining.  I try, a lot of the time frustratingly, to capture it through my work, using pencil and paint, watercolour, acrylic and oil." Rosaleen Tanham

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Patricia O'Donohue; Fine Art: Paint

Patricia uses a combination of paint and collage techniques to create her art work.



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Rebecca Connell; Fine Art: Textiles

“Forgotten Fatalities”

"My work challenges the audience’s inherent ideas surrounding beauty. It plays with the boundaries of revulsion and attraction, blurring the confines of what constitutes aesthetic pleasure. The pieces focus on animal carcasses, transforming everyday forgotten fatalities into delicate studies of mortality. These casualties, which previously incited feelings of disgust, now represent the exquisite sadness that is death. The grotesque becomes beautiful and the melancholic becomes enchanting." Rebecca Connell

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