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The Mind and The Eye

Gráinne Cuffe & Jane Murtagh

6th June - 29th June

Exhibition Completed. If you are interested in a remaining artwork please contact the gallery before purchasing on-line, as the work may no longer be available

The Mind & The Eye / Gráinne Cuffe / Click on Thumbnails for light box viewing

 The Mind & The Eye / Jane Murtagh / Click on Thumbnails for light box viewing

About this Exhibition:

Gráinne Cuffe
"Essential and central to my life are flowers - there were always flowers on the table as a child,and still are.Using etchings techniques over 400 years old,I am honouring the beauty of flowers. Comprising a myriad of grades of line and of tone,each etching possesses a sense of balance and harmony.  My images confront the viewer but not aggressively;the natural forms seduce and entice.They can be surmised by the paradoxical phrase 'exuberant restraint'.The monumental presence of each flower head - as seen through the eyes of an architect's daughter -their colour,their structure,their design,their rhythmic form is carefully distilled and presented.After continuous and repetitive study drawings the final etched image is full of life's positivity and vigour. They are both calming and exciting at the same time." - Gráinne Cuffe

Jane Murtagh
Jane is a metalsmith working with sheet copper and bronze. Jane utilises the techniques of repousse and etching. Her interest is in botany and morphology where she draws on the complex patterns and forms in nature that connect to a visual narrative that she can then deliver through metal. Once annealed metal is forged it comes alive. No longer hard and cold the metal takes on its own life as in repousse. With etching Jane likes to use the copper like drawing on a sheet of paper, echoing lines cutting through a landscape , magnifying minute details in moss, there is beauty in the detail all around us in the everyday.