Geraldine O’Rourke
Mixed Media Artist
“ Mixed Media has always interested me, I love to work & experiment with various mediums, textures & colours. Combining different materials together (Porcelain, Handmade paper, Acrylic painting, Drawings, Photography) gives me the freedom, challenge, excitement and fun of creating my own style of artwork . ”
— Geraldine O’Rourke
Geraldine O’Rourke is a native of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, attended Art College in Dun Laugher, Dublin in the 1980s. She moved to Galway in 1986 and worked with Macnas Community Arts Group.
In 1996 she opened her own studio in Ceardlann na Coille in Dingle where she lived and worked developing her Art for several years before moving to Galway in 2002.she is based in the Ceardlann Spiddal Craft and Design Studios.
Working at that time with porcelain & handmade dyed paper, Geraldine produced a series of aquatic themes artwork.The fish were crafted from porcelain & the paper depicted the ever changing colour of the sea.
Covid lockdown gave me the chance to stand back & view my art from a different prospective which started me off on a new journey .
I found myself wanting to experiment with Acrylic & other similar mediums.Allowing myself the time to develop new ideas.I am still in this process which probably will be a lifelong commitment.
My new collection are a series of acrylics paintings taken from ordinary subjects that caught my eye.The old neglected gate that is still in use, The Gaggle of Geese with their majestic features but can also be aggressive.
Knowing how life isn’t just Black & White, how humans are’t either good or evil, how our tendency to polarise things have made us less compassionate.
I would like to work from a place that seems real to me that makes sense.
A place where I can invite “The good the bad & the ordinary’’
