Fran O'Neill
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THE STORY OF ARTIST:
FRAN O’NEILL
"My own practice has evolved around my ability to manipulate oil paint and watercolor. Movement of the paint and shifting scale all come into play on the canvas/paper. When I think about what inspires me, I think of good and bad paintings, moments when I’ve been surprised in life; such as a moment when I saw a surprising relationship to color or shape, some unexpected quality. Perhaps it was/is the way that light hits a surface, or the juxtaposition of shapes, textures or a tiny happening, a memory, or a fragment of a dream or reality. There have been are times when I glimpse something, and I have no idea what I am looking at; or when the strangeness of real-life seems dreamlike or indescribable for a split second, than materializes into focus, and becomes the dumb plastic bag floating across the sky, yet for a second it looked like a pre-historic cobalt blue bird with serrated uneven wings flying up against a strange green/grey of a building. Sometimes it’s that fleeting moment that catches my eye and plays in my imagination. I don't necessarily seek to re-create what I have seen, but more the experience of how it felt and how I perceived it."
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