Maree Hensey and Mark Ryan:
Source & Surroundings

On view from Tuesday 12th January.
RESCHULED official opening SATURDAY 23rd January 2010, 3-5pm

Some images from the exhibition are below.
All enquiries to the gallery, ask for Shelley Hayes, at 0402-38529 or info@tinahely-courthouse.ie.

"Collect" © Maree Hensey

"Needle and Thread" © Maree Hensey

"Saw" © Maree Hensey

"Sweep" © Maree Hensey

"detail Tool Drawing" © Maree Hensey

"Fence Line 3" © Maree Hensey

"The Sweep Movement No. 1" © Maree Hensey

"Farmland Line Drawing 3" © Mark Ryan

"Farmland Line Drawing 1"© Mark Ryan

"Boundary 2" © Mark Ryan

"Enclosure" © Mark Ryan

"On The Turn" © Mark Ryan

"Protected" © Mark Ryan

Maree Hensey: "My work relates to the landscape and experiences of my immediate environment. Rural existence, the ritual of living and working in direct contact with nature, has long provided the stimulus for my work. My ideas or inspiration comes from the routine of life, domestic rituals, everyday things that surround me. My environment works on me in a silent way. My initials studies are monochromatic. I deliberately choose to eliminate the element of colour and to concentrate on how tone and the mark-making process alone can define form and space within a drawing. I apply paint/ink by any number of unconventional means. When I work my main concern lies with the mark. I am constantly looking at ways of enlarging the possibilities for mark making and increasing the likelihood of chance occurrences. When working some time ago, I experienced a moment in which I disappeared, and only the drawing remained. The piece that was born of that moment was fascinating, beyond any description. Such a moment is the very heart of my creation."

Mark Ryan: "The starting point for Ryan's works are formed by his connection with and response to the surrounds of the immediate environment. He draws in 3 dimensions with materials that allow an immediacy of action, so as not to lose the spontaneity of the initial response and to keep the idea alive and fresh. Within his work there is a recurring formula which is the relationship between balance rhythm and surface. The balance and rhythm between the components of the piece are not always directional but free form, the balance beautifully awkward. He tends to create works that have calligraphic qualities. In some cases aspects are left unsaid, the sentences left uncompleted. In particular his large scale works concentrate on the capturing volume and space with the lightest touch and the balancing of positive and negative spaces."

On view until Friday 5th February