'Pluto Rising' Painting

Áine Atara is an interior architect, designer and artist. Loyal to modernism, beauty and simplicity, Áine also works with a thorough obsession with layers, matrixes, nature and form. This combination is always present in her work, in both art and design. Working primarily on watercolour blocks she uses a layering technique, painting first and later adding drawn elements in black and white ink. Perpetually responding to witnessing light in the world, Áine works intuitively to create abstracted compositions that explore surface and depth and our soul’s experience on planet earth. This is evident in her pieces which have been called “simultaneously ethereal and strong”. Her work is held in private collections in Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Zambia, Aruba, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. A Registered Interior Designer at BIID (British Institute of Interior Design) Áine is also known for creating contemporary minimal interiors. In her career she has designed upscale residences for the royal families of the United Arab Emirates and has created interiors at the London headquarters of Accenture and Barclays Asset Management among others.