Under Water Exhibition of paintings

The artist Inga Ryan presents an expression of human dynamics in her exhibition,Under Water, in Ranelagh Arts, from Thursday 3 July to Wednesday 9 July. 

Ryan’s paintings are inspired by Matisse's The Swimming Pool. Similarly, they show bodies and limbs moving and agitating under water. 

Tensions that permeate the work are love and fear, frailty and strength, hope and uncertainty. She distils and captures intangible experiences, creating substance from ephemeral moments and feelings about those moments. Making the paintings “feels like being a voyeur stepping through the boundaries of people’s shared experience.” 

The exhibition portrays the psychological as well as the physical family landscape through a family playing with a ball underwater. The viewer doesn't really know what is happening; they may find the work perplexing and unsettling. They may wonder what the subtext is and are the figures playful or aggressive?

When these artworks are viewed as a series, the dynamic movement gives them a cinematic quality. They tell a story.

A polyptych of Ryan’s Under Water works were recently shown in Galleria360 in Florence and this event will be the first showing of the completed series.

www.ingaryanfineart.com

 4 July - 11 July