Lauren Breatnagh Artworks for Sale

Concept

Somewhere down the River is a mixed media painting on panel. This painting looks at the spiritual meaning of rivers, which symbolise the power of nature. Along with this, a river creates fertility filling the surrounding land with moisture resulting in a perfect location for growth and life. Rivers carry so many stories within the moving body of water. There is something quite captivating about an ever-changing landscape which is constantly renewing itself. It is a passage of time in which each viewer is never looking at the same picture. Over time our memories become faded. Certain parts of these memories stick out to us or hold more importance than how they may have actually happened. This painting contains memories of a location once visited, but it is not the true representation of the memory. The plants are fictional, the colours more vibrant. But still, it describes a memory that was experienced and now goes on to live a different life.

Concept

Somewhere down the River is a mixed media painting on panel. This painting looks at the spiritual meaning of rivers, which symbolise the power of nature. Along with this, a river creates fertility filling the surrounding land with moisture resulting in a perfect location for growth and life. Rivers...

Somewhere down the River is a mixed media painting on panel. This painting looks at the spiritual meaning of rivers, which symbolise the power of nature. Along with this, a river creates fertility filling the surrounding land with moisture resulting in a perfect location for growth and life. Rivers carry so many stories within the moving body of water. There is something quite captivating about an ever-changing landscape which is constantly renewing itself. It is a passage of time in which each viewer is never looking at the same picture.

Over time our memories become faded. Certain parts of these memories stick out to us or hold more importance than how they may have actually happened. This painting contains memories of a location once visited, but it is not the true representation of the memory. The plants are fictional, the colours more vibrant. But still, it describes a memory that was experienced and now goes on to live a different life.

Medium

#Painting

Price Range

USD $2,160 ~ $2,160

Biography

Lauren Breatnagh (formally Stewart-Clancy) is a graduate of The National College of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art Painting. She is now living and working in her home studio in Wexford.

Over the past few years her work has evolved through photography, sculpture, collage and poetry. The a...

Lauren Breatnagh (formally Stewart-Clancy) is a graduate of The National College of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art Painting. She is now living and working in her home studio in Wexford.

Over the past few years her work has evolved through photography, sculpture, collage and poetry. The artist believes that a painter holds the same traits to that of the storyteller, to create a world and a life for the observer to be drawn into while still holding some mystery and unknowing.

“Fundamentally I am a painter but I've always enjoyed challenging the boundaries of painting. My work changes depending on my environment and location, I like to use what is at hand. The work is very much informed by my love for nature through colour and shape, using materials that are seen as unusable.

Breatnagh’s most recent work continues to look at the natural form of flowers and plants as a base and at the same time placing them amongst unnatural colors and abstract landscapes. These pieces are over worked and built up with many layers of paint and mixed media. Breatnagh uses these layers to build up textures which add to this other worldly landscape. The work is mainly influenced by trying to communicate a dream like state where colors and shapes are used playfully, allowing the viewer to imagine their own ideas of what is taking place within the pieces.

“Having previously worked with a lot of collage, these paintings are made in the same manner. I have constructed paintings made from wooden pieces in the same way as the work I make on paper. I want the pieces to hold a rawness with this process, continuing to create these handmade, sculpture like paintings. ”

Breatnagh hopes that her new work can evoke a state of calmness for the viewer to reflect on their own ideas and imaginations.

Lauren Breatnagh