Fionnuala Nolan

Wild Places series

This series of works draw on memories of different environments around Ireland, and the intuitive sense of place and space that makes it home.

Wild Places

Oil on canvas, 120 x 76cm

Ancient Land

Mixed media, 38 x 23cm

Hidden Depths

Mixed media, 38 x 25cm

Little Green Walk

Mixed media on canvas, 20 x 15cm

Summer Earth

Bog of Allen, mixed media on canvas, 30 x 25cm

Cloud Nine

Mixed media on canvas, 25 x 18cm

The Colour of Memory 1

Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60cm

The Colour of Memory 2

Beara, County Kerry, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm.

Light Breaks Through

Mixed media, 38 x 22cm.

For Keeps

This little painting was part of the Pluid Project 2021.
It was inspired by this poem For Keeps by Joy Harjo.
Sun makes the day new.
Tiny green plants emerge from earth.
Birds are singing the sky into place.
There is nowhere else I want to be but here.
(Extract)

World Without End series

The series explored diverse emotional responses to places that seem imbued with magic – the power to change our emotions by leading us to infinite spaces.

Invocation

Mixed media on canvas, 30 x 25cm

Strange Stillness, Wide and Deep

Oil on canvas, 25 x 20cm

Salty Sea Air

Mixed Media, 22 x 20cm

Like the sea itself...

'...the shore fascinates us who return to it, the place of our dim ancestral beginnings. In the recurrent rhythms of the tides and surf and in the varied life of the tides lines there is the obvious attraction of movement and change and beauty. There is also, I am convinced, a deeper fascination born of inner meaning and significance.' Rachel Carson