Karen Walsh      Artist

My artwork attempts to make visible abandoned, mainly domestic dwellings, in the Irish landscape. Structures once filled with warmth and life are now seen wasting away and slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Disintegration is a vital element within my work and my images are composed of fragments or remnants of something that once was.  Within such fragments an image is created that attempts to observe loss. An absence and presence is simultaneously visible in the stillness of the painting compositions which depict a lack of human presence yet still evidence the stuff of life , a reminder of the human interaction that once existed. Recognisable objects bring forth hidden histories and can perhaps therefore lead to new narratives and unearthed histories.