Recent Works
exhibition, Swan Park, Buncrana
23.10.26
RECENT Works, an
exhibition of paintings by Buncrana-based artist
Josephine Kelly, is now showing at Artlink’s exhibition
panels in Swan Park, Buncrana.
Josephine’s paintings are rooted in the landscape of her
native Inishowen. Working primarily in oils, she
captures the changing light, colours and weather of
Inishowen, finding beauty and significance in everyday
places and passing moments. Her paintings draw on
familiar places, daily walks and passing encounters with
people and landscape. She captures moments that might
otherwise go unnoticed, revealing the quiet significance
of the places we inhabit and return to. |
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Since graduating in Fine
Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1997,
Josephine Kelly has lived and worked as a full-time
artist in her native Buncrana. Her practice is rooted in
walking, observation and a sensitivity to the changing
qualities of light, colour and weather.
Her early studio in Porthaw, close to the shore, played
an important role in shaping her work. Daily walks along
the coastal path, in all weathers, became a means of
observing and recording the subtle changes of the
surrounding landscape. This attentive way of looking
continues to inform her paintings, which capture
fleeting encounters with place and explore our
relationship with the environment around us. |
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Rooted in Inishowen,
Josephine’s work speaks to a wider sense of belonging
and memory, reflecting on how our surroundings shape our
experience of the world. Rather than presenting fixed
views of a place, her paintings convey the transient
nature of experience and the ever-changing relationship
between people and landscape.
Recent Works offers an opportunity to experience the
work of an artist whose practice continues to be shaped
by a close observation of, and lasting connection to,
the landscape she calls home. |
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