From Bone To Blossom: Eileen Casey and Emma Barone (Cloughjordan Festival)

Sunday, July 3rd · 3:00pm – 6:00pm

The Reading Room at Sheelagh na Gig, Main Street Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary.

 

 

From Bone to Blossom is a collaborative work of poems by Eileen Casey and imaginative pen and ink drawings of trees by Co. Offaly visual artist Emma Barone, with an introduction by writer Grace Wells. Eileen Casey will read from this book and her collection Drinking the Colour Blue. Eileen and Emma will also discuss the collaborative process… of producing From Bone to Blossom. Emma’s artwork will be on exhibit throughout the festival.

 

Eileen Casey has published three books of poetry and a creative writing anthology. She also writes fiction and prose and is widely published. She is the 2011 winner of The Hennessy Awards, Emerging Fiction category.

 

Emma Barone has held 10 successful solo exhibitions to date, and her work has been featured in several publications such as the Irish Arts Review and the Irish Independent. Her works hang in public collections throughout Ireland, Europe and the United States.

 

 

 

 

West Coast Trees

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.

 

September Art

For the month of September…

 

Artist Emma Barone will display a selection of paintings from her “West Coast Tree Series” in Auctioneer Jim Cashens window, Emmet Square, Birr, Co Offaly.

Paintings will be changed every few days.

The  entire collection of 30 paintings will be exhibited at the Watergate Theatre Gallery, Kilkenny City, from 8^th Oct – 12^th Nov 2010.

‘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.

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.

Emma Barone.

 

Dragonfly

Can you spot the dragonfly? I took this photo a few weeks ago when I was turning turf on the bog, needless to say I had the opportunity to get some really cool shots too.

 

Alison Curtis BLOG – DisCow

 

via Alison Curtis BLOG > Discow              

Alison Curtis of  Today Fm said:  Thanks to Emma Barone who sent me this lovely picture of her own artwork. She knows I love cows and this is pretty cool indeed.

 Check out www.emmabarone.com for more interesting pieces