Summer Barn

30x35cm painted edges

oil on wooden board

signed in verso

This painting is from a series on farm buildings in West Cork. I am surrounded by dairy farms and have been painting rural farm buildings in my townland and beyond for the past three years. In this series of oil paintings, the buildings are isolated in composition without the presence of people, vehicles or trees, the sky colours are inventions and cloudless, creating atmosphere and mood.This is a social archive of a lifestyle and infrastructure that may disappear in the future.

This whole collection of work, both landscapes and farm buildings, investigate isolation, peace, a changing and perhaps disappearing landscape.