Kieran Brennan - Artist
Kieran Brennan’s watercolours are at once fluid and serene, dynamic and placid – giving the impression of having been stolen from a moment in time. And for good reason. ‘Watercolour is very unforgiving of fussiness,' says Kieran, 'and it doesn’t lend itself to the kinds of layered revision common to oil or acrylic work. With watercolour you take an immediate reading of a place and record your feelings visually.’
Kieran’s themes come straight from nature – the natural environment of his adopted midlands home, the coastal landscapes of his childhood home in Bray, Co Wicklow, and other evocative natural settings around Ireland. The artist reads these settings in their ever-changing moods – autumnal woodlands, stark bog and wetlands, bright, serene coastlines and dark, angry Irish skies figuring prominently in his work.
‘Weather is such a powerful factor in our impression of any moment,’ he says, ‘and Irish weather gives me plenty to work with!’
Each of Kieran’s watercolours is about capturing his impression of a place – the play of textures moved by wind and water, the tricks of colours fading into each other in the rapidly-changing light. His work is rich in the textures, rhythms and emotions of the infinitely varied Irish countryside.
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