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The Tower - continuing to play with structures and forms in my drawing/painting. Enjoying adding the suggestion of constructed forms amid imagined landscapes. It’s adding a freshness through the addition of new marks, materials and methods. Interested to see where it takes me. Inks, pencil and acrylic paint on paper - A5 size. #tower #imaginedlandscapes #worksonpaper #landscape #artpractice #dailycreative #contemporaryart #contemporaryirishart #painting #drawing #thinking #contemporaryartpractice #marks #markmaking #liminalspace #abandonedplaces #remnant #structure #construct #framework #reclaimedbynature #landscapepainting #irishart #studiowork #newwork #abstractpainting #abstract #stuartcairns #artist #irishartist https://www.instagram.com/p/B78khB3n76o/?igshid=112q4fggqqkgf

Today’s gatherings- rope, net and plastics from the sea. #gathered #gatherings #collected #found #seatreasure #seaplastic #searope #oldrope #net #fishingnet #discarded #remnants #foundobjects #materiality #materiallanguage #visualpoetics #contemporaryartpractice #artpractice #artistseye #artistslife #wander #find #discover #process #shoreline #coastalwalk #coastallife #seashore #thalassophile https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFKp9cnJAe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bxxzqv1jow2k

Three finds- shell, wooden handle and a single white feather. Looking forward to using that handle for a new piece.. #finds #found #gathered #collected #seashell #handle #weatheredwood #whitefeather #traces #remnants #whatwasleft #materiality #materiallanguage #visuallanguage #visualpoetics #process #artpractice #contemporaryartpractice #moments #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #landscape #remnants #fragments #foundobjects #wabisabi https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn0uzeVHE4z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=173r3fy3ebafc

Detail- imagined landscape wild lines leaping up from the horizon, jagged fences lines cutting across the foreground. Thoughts of wild places with traces of human habitation left standing as transient markers of lived lives. #drawing #contemporarydrawing #fencelines #traces #remnants #transient #landscape #abstractlandscape #abstractart #contemporaryartpractice #contemporaryart #painting #imaginedlandscapes #landscape_lovers #stuartcairns #artist #wildplaces #boundaries #lines #traces #remnants #artlovers #artcollector #thinkingthroughdrawing #irishartist #irishart #artistsoninstagram #thiscreativelife #createeveryday

Material sketch- found objects, silver and paper.. #materialdrawing #drawing #assemblage #foundobjects #implements #tools #utensils #flatware #sculptural #metalwork #process #artpractice #contemporaryartist #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryartpractice #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #silversmith #silversmithing #making #artlife #thiscreativelife #artistlife #artlovers #artistsoninstagram #irishartist #art

Excited to announce the inclusion of two works in Fruiting Bodies, an exhibition running from Saturday 3rd Dec through to Monday 13th December, 11am - 5pm at Ridgebank Contemporary Art Space, Kington, Herefordshire. The exhibition has been curated by Caroline Lisa Allen as a response to discovering dry-rot (Serpula lacrymans) in the exhibition space she has beautifully created in the former Kington & Radnorshire Bank - later Midland/HSBC - a handsome building in the town centre. Rather than catastrophising, Caroline sought to make a virtue of necessity, mounting this exhibition of artists’ responses to the theme of Fruiting Bodies, little crying snakes and all others. Beyond Kington, Ridgebank is a bold and welcome intervention for Herefordshire. @fruitingbodies2022 @ridgebank #contemporaryart #contemporaryartpractice #exhibition #fruitingbodies #serpulalacrymans #gallery #artspace (at RidgeBank Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck0Nd31ID6d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Work in progress for Calan Gaeaf. Grimoire of Honorius, 2022. Acrylic on aluminium, W55 x H40cm. #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #contemporaryartpractice #calangaeaf #halloween #liminal #veil #grimoire #occult (at Radnor Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYpmnKoIQV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=