Artist statement
Capturing the landscape in all its complexity is key to Considine’s work and, focusing on this topic, she looks at the unique and diverse forms found in nature and how both man-made, climate change and extraordinary natural occurrences affect the landscape around us. A fascination with the power of the environment, the continual movement and metamorphosis of the earth, land and sky, and the consequences of these factors are all reoccurring themes throughout her work.
With colour being an important aspect to her work and often working with large scale drawings, she strives to create a strong visual impact. Her work reveals versions of the land that seem quite otherworldly but are very real, often conveying the harsh reality and force of nature and environmental change. The resulting imagery is a study of the continually active, complex, fragile and changing world around us.
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water
Michelle Considine lives and works in Dublin.
SÍM Residency Reykjavik
Hons BA in Fine Art Painting, IADT, Dublin
With colour being an important aspect to her work and often working with large scale drawings, she strives to create a strong visual impact. Her work reveals versions of the land that seem quite otherworldly but are very real, often conveying the harsh reality and force of nature and environmental change. The resulting imagery is a study of the continually active, complex, fragile and changing world around us.
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water
Michelle Considine lives and works in Dublin.
SÍM Residency Reykjavik
Hons BA in Fine Art Painting, IADT, Dublin
