bragan bog in the rain. co. monaghan, january 2024
Tag: bog
The bog of Deeragh in October, 2022
Co. Donegal, Ireland
Three paintings from a recently completed series called The Bog Forgives.
Acrylic and oil on wooden panel.
(Kaiser Caimo 2021)
Most of my attention lately has been poured into a project that at one point I intended to be a quick, messy, angry zine about Direct Provision. Now it’s a shaping up to be a series of approximately 30 small mixed media paintings.
It’s taken me a while and a fair amount of experimentation to decide what combination of techniques would let me get as close as possible to the pictures I see in my head when I think about how I want this work to look.
I’ve been reworking some old abstract paintings where I’d messed around with gesso and impasto acrylic trying to generate texture using knives, clingfilm, anything that came to hand. A layer of gold metallic acrylic paint acts like trapped light so that later layers of darker oil paint are infused with warmth. These upper layers of burnt umber and sienna tones can be scraped back to reveal a kind of internal glow, like heat trapped in the earth.
scraps from the summer. 2020
Bog life, Co. Kerry.
April 2020
(Plague Diaries Vol II)
Blanket bog landscape at Cuilcagh, on the Irish border. November 2019