Mary Canty Walking the Fields
Mary Canty: Walking the Fields
September 17 to October 13, 2004
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 18th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm.
Mary Canty is drawn to paint the Irish landscape not only by the natural beauty of its elements–form, colour, space–but equally by her response to a felt presence in the land itself. Canty’s work features iconographic abstract images of fields and hedges, ridges and rocks, streams and ponds, as well as the remains of ancient peoples. The works are imbued with a sense of mystery and wonder. Says Canty, “I make drawings and colour sketches directly from nature and then later uses these images to attempt a more elemental and abstract vision of the landscape.”
Since graduating from the National College of Art and Design in 1984, Canty has appeared regularly in major group shows throughout Ireland. She has shown at the Jo Rain Gallery, Dublin, Galerie Kontrast, the Hague, and Beate Lemcke Gallerie, Berlin. Many of the 30 works in this Glengarriff show were inspired by residencies at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.