2013-2015 — NualaClarke

Paintings 2013-2015
A period of transition
from NYC to Ireland
reflected in smaller scale work.

‘TO TREMBLE INTO STILLNESS’
Solo Show

These paintings work with W.B. Yeats phase fourteen from “A Vision”. Where, as Robartes explains, “Under the frenzy of the fourteenth moon/The soul begins to tremble into stillness, /To die into the labyrinth of itself!” Moved by interconnections otherworldly and subtle this work is made from within the realm where attention is brought moment by moment to the whispers pushing the brush, a place where “thought is disappearing into image.”

shown at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland June 2013.

More information about “A Vision”
see Yeats Vision

“On the afternoon of October 24th 1917, four days after my marriage, my wife (Georgie Hyde Lees) surprised me by attempting automatic writing. What came in disjointed sentences, in almost illegible writing, was so exciting, sometimes so profound, that I persuaded her to give an hour or two day after day to the unknown writer, and after some half-dozen such hours offered to spend what remained of life explaining and piecing together those scattered sentences. ‘No,’ was the answer, ‘we have come to give you metaphors for poetry.’ ‘Introduction to “A Vision” ’ from ‘A Packet for Ezra Pound’ (1937), AV B 8

WB Yeats - 20x20cm, oil on canvas (private collection)

he who hath the key to the sea - 30x24cms acrylic on board (private collection)

as it seems - 51x41cm acrylic on canvas (private collection)

peopled by dreams - 41x46cm oil on canvas (private collection)

firstborn - 41x46cm acrylic on canvas (private collection)

her flushed cheeks - 40x40cm oil on canvas

i stood dreaming - 30x40 acrylic on canvas

labyrinth of itself - 41x46cms acrylic on canvas (private collection)

as in serene air - 55x40cm acrylic on canvas

beauty becomes possible - 40x40cm acrylic and oil on canvas (private collection)

essential honey - 41x46cm acrylic on canvas (private collection)

that nobility - 60x50cm acrylic on canvas (private collection)

her chosen motley - 40x30cm oil on canvas (private collection)

Shapeshifter - 31x25cm, acrylic on board (private collection)

Sing out the song- 26x36cm acrylic on board (private collection)

in starlight - 51x41cm acrylic on canvas

the Queen, oh holy ghost - 40x40x4cm oil on canvas (reworked)

…and the bard demanded a replay - 80x100cm oil on canvas

absorption in time - 120x100cm acrylic on canvas

the salt air 30.5x40.5 oil on canvas 2015 (private collection)

with heart grown wild - 30.5x40.5 acrylic on canvas 2015 (private collection)

this nebulous day - 30.5x40.5cm oil on canvas 2015 (private collection)

buntrahir bay - 30.5x40.5cm oil on canvas 2015 (private collection)

buntrahir fog - 30.5x40.5cm oil on canvas 2015 (private collection)

changeable - 30.5x40.5 oil on canvas 2015 (private collection)

Gaze - oil on canvas 55x64” 139x162cm (lost in a flood)

‘Of This Place- Contemporary visual reflections from Yeats Country.’
Group Show

‘Acknowledging the wealth of inspiration afforded to William Butler Yeats by the landscape of County Sligo, each member of this collective of eight Sligo-based artists individually explores the nature of the relationship between their own work and these same environs.
The exhibition makes for an interesting exploration of the many planes of landscape, from the geographical to the emotional to the metaphysical. The group bring together their own findings to mark a collective appreciation of these many geographies, presenting an homage of sorts to the landscape of Sligo.
With each artist's experience as individual as their own practice, this body of work is a visual meditation upon the manifold ways that our surrounding landscape is absorbed, seeping into our creative consciousness. ‘

shown at El Ateneo, Madrid, Spain and
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
August 2015

Nuala Clarke, Conor Gallagher, Kate Mac Donagh, Brian Mc Donagh, Leonora Neary, Cormac O'Leary, Bettina Seitz, Michael Wann

away, come away - 24x30cm mixed media on board

flowers and grass and cloudless sky - 20x25cm mixed media, board

she dreamed of the white stag leap - 30x24cm mixed media on board

old bones upon the mountain shake - 25x20cm mixed media on board

the kings hair - 25x20cm mixed media on board

small birds in the dew of the morn - 18x13cm mixed media on board

the winds awaken - 13x18cm mixed media on board (private collection)

wet winds - 13x18cm mixed media on board (private collection)

the deepest water in the world - 20x25cm mixed media on board

The tempest - 8x10" (20x25cm) acrylic on board

thought of mountain and lake, of my grandfather and of Sligo 51x51 cm oil on canvas

for I would ride with you upon the wind - 51x51cm oil on canvas

from mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen - 51x51cm oil on canvas

upon the mountain side - 31x41 oil on canvas

'neath the cover of October skies - 45x40cm oil on canvas

i dreamed towards break of day - 41x51cm oil on canvas

‘A DRAWING FOR EVERYTHING’
Solo Show

This ongoing series of drawings, prompted by a dream are a continuation of a series of 1000 works - ’One Thousand Worlds’.

I begin with a circle printed within a 7x7” square of paper then modify each one with line and/or colour. I spontaneously engage in documenting familiar or imagined structures and order. The work in this show were a selection from 1001 to 1600. I took the drawings out of chronological/numerical order and grouped them according to systems that I devised at the time.

Concurrently, I had been making paintings of everything; the familiar and persistent, sea/sky paintings, and quite often relational paintings.

shown at the
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Gallery 2013

I had a dream in which I was making a drawing for everything, I had done one for passport control, another for failed marriages. I was drawing the one for relaxation when I awoke, relaxed.