€24
An interesting original mixed media artwork by the artist Olivia O'Dwyer featuring an abstracted composition of stitched handmade textiles, hand dyed in tones of magentas and lilacs. Hand signed bottom right and housed in a solid pine frame. O'Dwyer is a contemporary Irish artist, her work selling very well in the primary market.
MM: 33 x 43 cm in frame
O'Dwyer was born in Limerick, but now lives and works in Co. Wexford. Her primary focus is painting and drawing. She is most interested in 'Bad Painting' a purposely raw style of painting developed in 1970’s, where the idea and the immediacy of the work is most important. Her influences are painters like Phillip Guston, Rose Wylie, Norbert Schwontkowski. She works with a sense of urgency, giving her work a certain directness. She examines ideas around quotidian daily experience, observations drawn from the world around her and more intimate or personal thoughts. The paintings are often an amalgam of images and text which may vary from the humorous to the confessional, with an interest in an off-kilter composition and style. The text is frequently rendered in loose looping brushstrokes which helps to convey the concept of the painting in a more direct way. They are a reflection of the tension we all experience between the vulnerability of our innermost thoughts and the visage we present in public.
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