Kaleidoscope of colour in George’s Street
ARTISTS Marja van Kampen and Martina Furlong will exhibit their colourful paintings and limited edition prints in their Pop-Up Gallery at 16 George’s Street Friday, October 19 to Sunday, November 4, opening daily from 11 am to 5pm.
Wexford-born Martina produces colourful, textured landscapes and abstracts in oils and acrylics mixing reality with memories and imagination and painting her own interpretation of it.
She is currently working on a series of paintings that combine landscape and abstract work, inspired by the Irish National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig. The semi-abstract paintings combine the lines and shapes of ring forts, stone circles and megalithic tombs with the organic lines and shapes of the natural forestry and wet woodlands. She has also incorporated stitching and sewing into her work for the first time and four of these pieces feature in this new series of work.
Earlier this year Martina exhibited in Lon- don in the group show, ‘Unity in Variety VIII’ and also and at the London St.Patrick’s Day Festival. She had a solo exhibition in the café at Hook Lighthouse and participated in the first Enniscorthy Arts Trail. After the Wexford Fringe Festival she will show her work at Art Source in the RDS from November 9 to 11.
Dutch-born artist Marja van Kampen expresses the wonderment of childhood, in her colourful paintings which depict the child in all its innocence and openness.
The original inspiration for her exhibited works are her vivid memories of the beauty and spontaneity of children during her many travels to India, combined with the colour slides that her father took of her sisters and herself in the 1950’s and 60’s.
Incorporated in the work are elements of landscape, both local and foreign and the use of decorative and fabric motifs, suggested by other cultures. Her purpose is to enlarge elements, distort proportions and disregard perspective to produce a spirited and naïve quality to the work.
Marja’s recent exhibitions include the Carlow Arts Fringe Festival and the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Her work is in many public collections such as the Arts Council, Office of Public Works, Wexford County Council. She is preparing for a solo exhibition in the Kenny Art Gallery, Galway and the Signal Arts Centre, Bray in 2019.