An exhibition of new works by Breda Burns, entitled 360° of the Reek, continues every day at Custom House Studios, The Quay, Westport, until May 10. Breda Burns is from Westport, inspired by a love of the place and people. Her dedication to the community has been marked by continued involvement with community and public art. She was a founding member of Westport Artist Studios group, and was active in the development of the Custom House Studios.
Breda has lived in the shade of Croagh Patrick for most of her life, absorbing the changing moods of the mountain and its environs. This series of work began more than two years ago, but has been germinating since she first drew the mountain as a child. Breda’s painting has always been intensely personal; a dynamic celebration of the body and the spaces it inhabits. She works through evolving layers inhabited by the human form, flowing words, and the surrounding landscape. The starting point in Breda’s work is rigorous research and detailed working plans. As the works evolve through layers of thought and emotion rendered in textured and detailed colour work, these barely visible strata infuse her paintings with a tangible potency.
With this exhibition Breda embraces both herself and her space here in the west, a cartographical rendering through colour of merging and contrasting physicality. These detailed renderings of the physical presences of human form and landscape observe and question, and finally mature into expressions of acceptance.
Opening hours are 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and 1pm to 4.30pm on weekends and public holidays.
