Collinstown artist to show work during Venice Biennal
An artist from Collinstown has been invited to show her work at the Borders International Art Fair during the Venice Biennal.
Explaining her art, Emma Carter said she “explores line as a mark on canvas”.
Her style is abstract expressionism and her aim is “to manipulate this line and form new marks in my work”.
The different size brushes and angles at which Emma applies the paint help her to achieve an illusion in her work that invite the viewer to look closer to make sense of where each mark and line connects, she said.
She finds a conversation between her marks and lines and also the colours she chooses, “announcing their presence within each abstract space resulting in a dialogue in the painting between all of the elements”.
Each colour corresponds to its opposite, and she then mixes various tones and shades of the colours to create depth.
Emma entices the viewer to feel a certain way when viewing her work. Each canvas has a different impact on how the viewer sees the work, whether it is a mood, feeling or longing for answers.
Process is a big part of her work. She works quickly and everything is captured in a spontaneous dance of paint, portraying an infinite end to the knots and lines seen in her work.
Her work makes the viewer question the relationship between a structured entity and a realisation of a new world.
Emma is a secondary school art teacher in Coláiste Dun an Ri, Kingscourt. She studied fine art, specialising in paint in the School of Design and Creative Arts, Galway. After her studies she started her Professional Masters of Art and Design with Digital Media Education degree in Limerick School of Art and Design.
She is now an art educator, while also pursuing her career as a visual artist.
Emma has taken part in many exhibitions in Ireland, most recently she held a solo exhibition ‘Gyre’ to raise funds for the Paediatric Unit in at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar.
Find Emma on Instagram; and on Facebook at Emma Carter Art’