Carrageen Dancer

Carrageen Dancer is part of a series exploring the joy of embracing emotions in the underwater world. Water is connected to the world of feelings. Here we see a figure fully embracing her joyful side, with purpose.

The figure glides. She is flowing with the current. Carrageen Moss, also known as Dulsk, gently enfolds her and flows from her. She carries a piece of the seaweed in her left hand. She is both carried by it, and carrying it - protected and protecting.

“Sea People” is a series of paintings inspired by the tale of the lost village of Cill StúifÍn, imagining its vanished inhabitants. Seaweed plays a prominent role in my work, both for its environmental significance and its similarity to the way human hair moves underwater. In ‘Sea People’ seaweed acts as a vessel for emotion, conveying what is internal and not always visible on the surface.