This is a new exhibition by Mairead O’Neill Laher which is currently running in the Signal Arts Centre in Bray. They are a collection of paintings based on coastlines and skylines that verge into abstract with rich colours. If you’re near Bray, we recommend you get along to check them out!

‘In My Element’ – Paintings by Mairead O’ Neill Laher

Monday 8th – Sunday 21st June 2015

Signal Arts Centre is delighted to be exhibiting works by talented artist Mairead O’Neill LAHER.

These paintings endeavour to express what seems inexpressible in any other medium. Being in the landscape for this artist symbolizes freedom. She is drawn back to the same evocative elements in the landscape over and over again.

This work began with research in different landscapes, in Co. Kerry, and in Cape Town, South Africa but the paintings are not geographically specific.  The focus of interest is the constant conflict between land and sea.

The coastline is her source though shifting memory plays a part as well.  The flow and movement of the paint is vital and fundamental in the search for something transcendent, which goes beyond the initial concept.  This artist’s work has been shown in Ireland, Johannesburg,Chicago and New York.  Her work is in corporate and private collections.

When the artist emerged 14 years ago or so, her first solo exhibition took place at the Signal Arts Centre, and now she has returned for a follow up exhibition many years later.  Having attended the opening the artist’s use of deep colours is striking.  Though there is a synergy throughout the collection each piece works well in isolation, as a piece of ‘foreground’ art.