Sea Floor

Loss - Grief - Sadness - Healing through Stillness - Time for Introversion - Solitary

‘Sea Floor’ expresses the time of grief, when one must turn to stillness and solitariness. And yet, within this time of sorrow there is still movement - as seen in the figure’s hair that is slowly and tentatively navigating the world around it again.

Healing through the slow, solitary moments that follow grief.

“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. 

Watercolour on Paper, Private Collection.

Exhibited at ‘Dulaman na Farraige’, Clare County Museum, 2023.