Marie Cullen - Textural Expressionist
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Marie Cullen born in the Ancient Kingdom of Oriel 8,960 years after people first came there!
Marie is a founder-member of Working Artist Studios, an artists' collective in Skibbereen, Co.Cork, Ireland.
To purchase any of Marie's work click here.
And if you want to see an interview with Marie in her studio about her work, inspiration and the Meaning of Life! click here. To see a new video showing the workings of Working Artist Studios in Skibbereen, click here.
This body of work is concerned with the geological and mythological landscape of Ireland.
Landscape Collages
Viewed from a distance, the landscape is colour and composition. Close up, it is potent with intricate textures. There are still hidden areas: some hidden because they have not been found yet; others because their significance seems insignificant.
I am excited by a line of trees that draw the slope of a hillside; the shape of a hillside that draws a line of trees. Tangles, curves, slopes, pathways disappearing into a place I am not. Drawing me further, keeping going. Landscape that has a journey in it.
The feel of paper: tearing, crunching, hardened, made solid; creating a structure that I have manipulated and enjoyed. Adding colour: the feel of the oil on the surface; the making of the piece to demonstrate my encounter with the living place we inhabit.
Legacy of Man.
The first chapter of any place is that which can be read in the rocks hidden below the surface.
The bogs of Ireland are the great repository of the past; and beauty of the present.
"Great slabs of rock which are almost as flat and undisturbed as they were when they were formed in the warm, shallow seas of the Carboniferous Ocean, 340,000,000 years ago."
"A palimpsest of skeletal monuments, fashioned of the ever-present stone, at every period of human exploitation of the Burren, now litter the stripped and abandoned pavements, one of the starkest reminders in the Irish landscape of how dramatically we can alter and deplete its precious resources when we do not understand or take adequate account of the forces that interact to maintain its delicate balance."(John Feehan)
Marie's work is mixed-media collage and oil paint on canvas, board or paper. "I sculpt the medium- mostly a heavy quality paper- into the form of the subject I have chosen, then I layer wood glue and plaster where necessary until the desired texture is realised. Then I paint it!"
Marie is a founder-member of Working Artist Studios, an artists' collective in Skibbereen, Co.Cork, Ireland.
To purchase any of Marie's work click here.
And if you want to see an interview with Marie in her studio about her work, inspiration and the Meaning of Life! click here. To see a new video showing the workings of Working Artist Studios in Skibbereen, click here.
This body of work is concerned with the geological and mythological landscape of Ireland.
Landscape Collages
Viewed from a distance, the landscape is colour and composition. Close up, it is potent with intricate textures. There are still hidden areas: some hidden because they have not been found yet; others because their significance seems insignificant.
I am excited by a line of trees that draw the slope of a hillside; the shape of a hillside that draws a line of trees. Tangles, curves, slopes, pathways disappearing into a place I am not. Drawing me further, keeping going. Landscape that has a journey in it.
The feel of paper: tearing, crunching, hardened, made solid; creating a structure that I have manipulated and enjoyed. Adding colour: the feel of the oil on the surface; the making of the piece to demonstrate my encounter with the living place we inhabit.
Legacy of Man.
The first chapter of any place is that which can be read in the rocks hidden below the surface.
The bogs of Ireland are the great repository of the past; and beauty of the present.
"Great slabs of rock which are almost as flat and undisturbed as they were when they were formed in the warm, shallow seas of the Carboniferous Ocean, 340,000,000 years ago."
"A palimpsest of skeletal monuments, fashioned of the ever-present stone, at every period of human exploitation of the Burren, now litter the stripped and abandoned pavements, one of the starkest reminders in the Irish landscape of how dramatically we can alter and deplete its precious resources when we do not understand or take adequate account of the forces that interact to maintain its delicate balance."(John Feehan)
Marie's work is mixed-media collage and oil paint on canvas, board or paper. "I sculpt the medium- mostly a heavy quality paper- into the form of the subject I have chosen, then I layer wood glue and plaster where necessary until the desired texture is realised. Then I paint it!"