canvas :: ciara agnew :: irish painter, contemporary irish artist, oil on canvas

Ciara Agnew is an Irish painter currently living and working in Dundalk. Her vibrant paintings take colours to their limit by challenging their relationships with each other. She positions and separates with horizontal and vertical strips, some straight and others blurred thereby highlighting their intricate tensions. Ciara is a Fine and Applied Arts Graduate of the University of Ulster. In 2004 she held a solo show, ‘Narrow Road’, in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. She has exhibited at: Microsoft Ireland 19th Exhibition (2006); Iomha County Festival, Co. Louth (2004); the Clotworthy Arts Centre (2002); the Sheldonart Gallery, Belfast (2001) and Bewleys, Dublin (2001). Collections include ACC Bank and the Office of Public Works.

"My paintings are limited to horizontal and vertical strips and blocks of colour, which are all around us. Some edges have a blurred or indefinite quality, others are left straight. I want to create tension between the two. I feel when something is imperfect there is more truth in it, more expressive. I'm not interested in perfection, as the world we live in is imperfect and, as a Bible believing Christian, I feel that we have lost our relationship with world as a sacred place, and that has an enormous influence on what I paint. The verse 'God is the same yesterday, today and forever', (Heb 13:8), really reminds me that man's futile attempts to create physical fortresses of safety come and go and the only certain eternity is God."

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Ciara Agnew :: ‘Many Roads I', oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm	Ciara Agnew :: ‘Many Roads II', oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm




Ciara Agnew :: Untitled, oil on canvas, 60 x 90cm



Ciara Agnew :: 'Alignement', oil on canvas, 60 x 90cm



Ciara Agnew :: 'Feared', oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm

Ciara Agnew is an Irish painter currently living and working in Dundalk. Her vibrant paintings take colours to their limit by challenging their relationships with each other. She positions and separates with horizontal and vertical strips, some straight and others blurred thereby highlighting their intricate tensions. Ciara is a Fine and Applied Arts Graduate of the University of Ulster. In 2004 she held a solo show, ‘Narrow Road’, in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. She has exhibited at: Microsoft Ireland 19th Exhibition (2006); Iomha County Festival, Co. Louth (2004); the Clotworthy Arts Centre (2002); the Sheldonart Gallery, Belfast (2001) and Bewleys, Dublin (2001). Collections include ACC Bank and the Office of Public Works. "My paintings are limited to horizontal and vertical strips and blocks of colour, which are all around us. Some edges have a blurred or indefinite quality, others are left straight. I want to create tension between the two. I feel when something is imperfect there is more truth in it, more expressive. I'm not interested in perfection, as the world we live in is imperfect and, as a Bible believing Christian, I feel that we have lost our relationship with world as a sacred place, and that has an enormous influence on what I paint. The verse 'God is the same yesterday, today and forever', (Heb 13:8), really reminds me that man's futile attempts to create physical fortresses of safety come and go and the only certain eternity is God."

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