Desert Winds Painting

Lauren Breatnagh (formally Stewart-Clancy) is a graduate of The National College of Art and Design Ireland with a BA in Fine Art Painting. Over the past few years her work has evolved through photography, sculpture, collage and poetry. The artist believes that a painter holds the same traits to that of the storyteller, to create a world and a life for the observer to be drawn into while still holding some mystery and unknowing. “Fundamentally I am a painter but I've always enjoyed challenging the boundaries of painting. My work changes depending on my environment and location, I like to use what is at hand. The work is very much informed by my love for nature through colour and shape, using materials that are seen as unusable. The work I am making at present developed through the process of making paper collages. I began to collect different materials which I could incorporate in my paintings. This created a shift in my work as I looked towards a new process of making work.