Tigroney
Press is delighted to publish on free access via edpositIreland the catalogue of the solo exhibition of paintings by the Irish-based
artist Lucy Doyle shown at the Doorway Gallery in Dublin during May 2017.
Called ‘Feast’ the collection of
paintings were inspired by her daughter’s wedding. She writes: ‘I started work
on this exhibition in autumn 2015, directly after my daughter’s wedding, which
we celebrated at home, which took up months of preparation, working on the
garden etc. From out of all the excitement and celebrations, ideas for
paintings began to take shape. Flower girls, gardenscapes, food-laden tables,
and flower arrangements became a rich source of inspiration for the work I was
planning to do for my next show. And so ‘Feast’
emerged. ‘ Since graduating from Art College in 1982 Lucy Doyle has held a solo
show every 1 - 2 years. Over these past 30 or more years, she has developed her
own very unique and personal style, which is about colour and textures. Her
compositions are constructed within a shallow space, in which she challenges
the conventions of perspective, in order to celebrate the surface decorative
qualities and two dimensionality of the canvas. She writes: ‘I like to keep an
open and relaxed mind when it comes to my subject matter. This enables me to be
very eclectic, sourcing ideas from the place and people around me, or from
books, films, paintings, from art history or simply a feeling, a whim,
nostalgia or even a mood. When it comes to composing and constructing a
painting from an idea, I like to incorporate an element of experimentation. I
achieve this by trying out new ways to apply the paint. In Feast I have
explored different coloured grounds within one composition, from terre verte to
cadmium red, as well as my old favourite rose and ochre hues, hopefully finding
different ways to represent my idea of space and form. By pushing the
boundaries and limits of my style as far as I can go, I attempt to keep my work
as alive, vital and as fresh as possible. When it comes to the act of painting
itself, and when I finally get out the paints and start laying out the
composition, I very quickly let the interplay of colour and textures that are
created in the moment take president. Whatever it takes to produce a balanced
harmonious painting, where the colours remain vibrant and stand alone, is in
essence what I am all about. At this stage, previous plans of content and
narrative might be shelved or compromised to the betterment of the whole. I
work in impasto using a palette knife which keeps me in touch with the pure
physicality of the paint in all its tactile, colour- infused buttery beauty.’ http://hdl.handle.net/2262/80364
