MARY: MY ART’S FULL OF SURPRISES
NEWCASTLE’S MARY DUFFY HAS A NEW EXHIBITION IN BRAY. NICOLA DONNELLY TALKED TO THE ARTIST – WHO PAINTS WITH HER FEET
AN EXHIBITION ‘full of surprises’ is what Newcastle artist Mary Duffy has described her forthcoming exhibition at the Signal Arts Centre in Bray.
Mary, who has been painting for the last 10 years, has held numerous solo exhibitions and this will be her second at this particular venue.
Entitled ‘ The Goosefield’, the exhibition will have a series of paintings based on what the artist sees every day, in the field next door to her studio.
Known as the Goosefield because of the over wintering geese from the Arctic, the 20-acre field provides the artist with endless opportunities for contemplation as it changes throughout the day and is transformed throughout the seasons.
As someone without arms this does not hold her back as she said she ‘paints with my eyes and heart’.
Recently a short movie has been made about the artist and she is hoping to launch the movie on the night of the exhibition opening reception on Friday, June 23, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Mary says she is now at a point of transition as circumstances have led her to try to work more from her memory of places, rather than directly on site.
‘As a result of working more from memory, my paintings are becoming bigger and more abstract while still essentially landscapes. I am allowing the paint to lead me now as much as the landscape led me in the past,’ she said.
‘All I will say is that is will be an exhibition full of surprises,’ said Mary.
The series of paintings will be hung in open from Tuesday, June 20, and the exhibition will run till Sunday, July 2.