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A Burren-based artist is to bring her solo exhibition inspired by her travels in Iceland to Claremorris. Irish artist, Kaye Maahs will exhibit a new body of work at Claremorris Gallery, Mayo from September 14. This is her first solo exhibition in some time and includes twenty-eight new captivating paintings. The exhibition, entitled ‘Iceland’, is a body of work borne out of diaries Kaye kept during her 2019 residency in Iceland, a journey made possible by the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award. In her paintings, her intuitive and tactical handling of paint revels in the majestic and ethereal settings of the Icelandic landscape. Kaye’s paintings don’t scream for attention, instead the unpretentious use of paint beckons silently to the viewer; to explore, and to consider our relationship with the natural world, while at the same time calling attention to the physicality of their medium. She works ‘wet into wet’ and it is this immediacy that allows her paintings to …
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