Melancholy

Melancholy - Deep thought - Introversion - Inner World - Self-Protection

Melancholy features a female figure in a seated position on a watercolour ground with her arms crossing over her knees. Her kelp hair is floating towards the right, upwards. A melancholic expression on her face. In the back ground is a wave of blue colour, dashed with pinks and greens. Drips of black paint drip from the top left area.

“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.