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 Upside Down House' is an acrylic painting on this canvas' unframed but with a neat black edge and ready to hang. It tells the story of what happens when we live our lives to please others, and to always put them first - and the joy of finally putting ourselves first. I write an accompanying poem for each painting, which is printed and laminated and comes with the painting. The poem tells the deeper story behind the painting. Below is the poem for this piece: THE UPSIDE DOWN HOUSE Everything was upside down her house her home her head her heart until the day she realised that she’d been standing on her head so it only looked like up was down and down was up from the point at which she stood. Standing on your head for anyone but you only makes crazy and sad and tired and blue. So when she saw the light she took a step right back and saw from a new perspective that her little house was right side up and always was but she’d been looking from the bottom down and not been looking up. Now she lives to please herself with her feet upon the ground her head the right way up and her house the right way round.
Website: http://roisinduffy.com
Instagram: @roisinduffyartist

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Acrylic on Canvas

Yes