40cm x 40cm

About artist: Artist and poet Roisin Duffy is a native of Co. Cavan, but has been living in Co. Monaghan for almost 30 years. As a visual artist working in acrylics, she paints the common themes of life – love and family, sadness and hope, our homes and our animals. She distills these complex human situations into simple, balanced shapes using her distinct ‘roundy’ style, where she brings alive the character of an old lady, a child, or a family group using just simply drawn lines and rounded forms. Her landscapes are a way for her to tell a story about our relationship to our surroundings, and how we feel about our homes, and our place in the world, rather than a scene painted for its own sake. She says ‘the world has enough sharp edges’, and paints the wider world she observes, into a warmer, softer, rounder place on canvas. Roisin then writes an accompanying poem for every painting, giving it an extra, emotionally deeper layer.
About artwork: The Fighter' is an acrylic painting on this canvas, unframed but with a neat black edge and is ready to hang. It is based on someone fighting their own personal battle rather than an actual boxing match, in this case a mental health battle but it could relate to many life situations. I write a short poem to accompany each of my paintings (see 'The Fighter' poem below) which is printed and laminated and comes with the artwork. THE FIGHTER She dons her gloves and squares up to the old enemy in the corner, and jabs and feints like her life depended on it, and perhaps it does. There’s an epic battle going on that I can’t even see, girl versus demon. Present over past. Positive trying to beat negative as her battery’s running down. She fights an invisible foe, and this time, emerges victorious and proud. She’s getting stronger, every single time she fights to conquer that, which pulls her down.
Website: http://roisinduffy.com
Instagram handle:: @roisinduffyartist

Good Overall

Acrylic on Canvas

Yes