An Exhibition of Contemporary Landscape Paintings
at Good Day Deli, Cork City.
These paintings were made in response to island life during and post-Covid.
They explore a re-enchantment with the natural world, finding peace in the perpetual motion of the ocean, the constancy of the tide and the brilliant balm of the sea surrounding us.
Prior to relocating to Cork, Cora had lived away for 15 years. In 2008 she decided to try living back in Ireland and was ‘surprised and delighted’ to feel ‘at home’ in Ireland. This feeling of ‘finding one’s place’, connection and an enchantment with the landscape has underpinned her work since.
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Oil on canvas 180cm x 120cm In slip frame ready to hang These larger paintings have been stirring inside me for the past few years. It has been a pleasure to see them finally come to fruition in the studio. I am forever saying my work is ‘holding on and letting go’ . There may be more robust, verbose words for my process but the practice of turning up, letting go of all my notions and hang ups and holding on for inspiration, flow and the good stuff (that feels to my mind like fire) is essentially how I find and harness inspiration. Begin to Hope feels like a line I am making by walking, beyond the fertile void, it is of itself spilling out into the world at large
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 140cm x 74cm In slip frame ready to hang This painting typifies much of the push and pull at play in my work and could equally be called ‘Holding On & Letting Go’. It was painted over the course of a year in many layers – this painting and I had something of a long loose dance before we capitulated towards each other. Lands Edge is to my mind about standing your ground – staying within the magic limitlessness of imagination – and not getting sucked into the nonsensical void. Out beyond the churning chaos there is magic. You don’t always have to see it – but you must always believe in it, for as Roald Dahl said ‘only those who believe in magic will find it’. -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €845.00
