Wild, wet and rocky places, appeal to the Celt in Nuala Taylor. At dusk, when she tends to walk, she soaks up the atmosphere. Sometimes she sketches, with oil sticks or charcoal, sometimes she just takes it all in. Back in the studio, she tries to re-capture the moment in shape, colours and brush strokes and suddenly, we are right there with her.

She enjoys figurative work too, painting people within these spaces, each with their own story, an intimate snapshot into someone else’s life, at a particular moment in time.

Painting landscape, and its people, also enables Nuala to be a very quiet eco warrior: ‘I am never going to glue myself to the M25, but I do hope my paintings convey a sense of how how beautiful and fragile the environment is, how much it gives us, how much we have to lose, and how we must all play our part in protecting it.’

The elongated shadows of the rocks, the limited palette of soft blues and greys, the use of horizontals and the still light of the moon on calm still sea evoke a sense of quiet , solitude an beauty.

 Oil on Board

40x50cm