Eithne Twomey

Eithne Twomey studied Fine Art and Ceramics in the Crawford School of Art, Cork, Ireland in the 70′s and 80′s. She worked in Ceramics and exhibited widely in Ireland at that time. Painting  became a full-time commitment  around six years ago. She has been painting water, tides, mud, riverbeds, barges, boats, quays, for a few years now trying to make sense of the place she came from and the place she is living in now. The paintings combine her sources of Cork Harbour where she grew up and Creekside, Deptford near where she lives now. She uses photographs, photocopies, drawing and collage to process these sources and aims with paint to get to the very essence of these images focusing on reflections on water; greyness of mud at low tide; hulk-like barges; dark and crumbling quay walls and above all light. 

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