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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric is a poisonous fungus: The quintessential toadstool. Some authorities believe that this strikingly beautiful “fly agaric” mushroom was the mysterious God-narcotic “Divine Soma” of ancient India.
This experiment is about mixing & combining nature with manmade… the natural world with the material world. In this case a fly agaric with a pair of ladies shoes. It may sound bizarre but that’s the beauty of it. When you get down to the nitty gritty its all made up of the same stuff….atoms, molecules, fragments, particles, sparkles, colours, magic etc. In my mind it is possible to create the impossible, it’s only through limiting thinking that we fail to see the opportunities to create a vision or concept that is alien to the generic lifestyle that is prevalent today.These fly agaric shoes have allowed me to use my imagination to produce a unique concept.
We all too often underestimate our abilities as creators of our own vision.
The Reading Room at Sheelagh na Gig, Main Street Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary.
Congratulations to Maureen Nair-Harte the ultimate winner of the June art print giveaway. Well done.
Everyone who ‘likes’ my Facebook Page in June is in with a chance to win one of my original signed and mounted fine art prints.
Winner will be notified on 30th June
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Print title: Reaching Isis - The original painting was part of my ‘West Coast Trees’ series 2010
West Coast Trees – Mountmellick Library and Gallery, Mountmellick, Co Laois.
The exhibition runs from 4th Feb until 3rd March 2011.
West Coast Trees’ is a project which aims to deliver a series of site specific tree paintings. I have long been fascinated by the shape trees adopt on the West Coast of Ireland. This shape, or form, presents as a distinctive windblown profile, one that is sculpted by the elements. The proximity of the Atlantic Ocean is a major determining factor in terms of influencing and moulding the shape of the trees.
I see this physical manifestation of ‘shape’ as having spiritual, psychological, elemental and socio-historical dimensions.
Trees have an energy which absorbs, responds and emits in a cyclical, generational, manner.
It is my intention to capture these layers, through the medium of art and to share my vision in a way that the observer can connect to and re-establish an already existing relationship with past, present and future.
‘West Coast Trees’ promises to be as diverse (due to the many layers it will explore) as it will be unique. The ultimate intention will be to provoke and challenge while at the same time, providing spiritual comfort.
Emma Barone.
In Association with Birr Library, Offaly Arts cordially invite you to the launch of From Bone to Blossom, an anthology of poetry and pen and ink drawings by Eileen Casey and Emma Barone.
The Launch will take place at Birr Library on Saturday 18th December at 11 am.
From Bone to Blossom is supported by Offaly Arts, Alternative Entertainments and South Dublin Arts. The publication will be launched by Artist and Writer Rosalind Fanning.
Tea and coffee will be served. Everyone Welcome.
Legions of Light, Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 60cm. This painting is part of my Coastal Trees Series currently on show at the Watergate Theatre Gallery, Kilkenny City, until 12th November.
http://www.emmabarone.com/current-show-page.html
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Illuminati is part of my ‘Coastal Trees Series’ currently on show at the Watergate Theatre Gallery, Parliament Street, Kilkenny City. Runs until 12 November 2010.
http://www.emmabarone.com/current-show-page.html
