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: Sunset Ridge' features 3 of my distinct little roundy houses with red roofs (which I call my #weehappyhouse) up on a ridge as the sun sets behind them. On first appareance it's a simple landscape scene. I write an accompanying poem for each of my pieces, which tells a deeper story. This one is about perception. Our perception of ourselves and our place in the world, and how not only is our own perception of ourselves often as skewed as  other people's perception of us is, but how we ourselves can decide to alter our own perception. (poem is below, it comes printed and laminated with the painting). The painting is currently unframed on thin canvas but is finished with a neat black edge and is ready to hang. SUNSET RIDGE I always felt the houses up on sunset ridge were not the sort of places that were meant for the likes of me. They had the view they had the height they looked down on the rest they even caught the sunsets from the crest. I felt I knew my place and it wasn’t up above hob-knobbing with the richer folk that lived a better richer life up on sunset ridge. One day I was watching the sunset from below and I realised that I could see the sunset’s light with an even better glow than those above who were blinded by the intensity of light and then I saw that all along that where I was, was right. I’d told myself that they were more than me my own perception made me think that sunset ridge was a better place to be. Now I know there is no us, or them, up on high, there’s only what we tell ourselves that we deserve because of how we feel inside.
Website: http://roisinduffy.com
Instagram: @roisinduffyartist

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Acrylic on Canvas

Yes