This article profiles Clare O'Connor, an artist and designer known for her vibrant and energetic abstract paintings and wearable art. O'Connor discusses her artistic journey, inspirations, signature style, and the development of her brand.
Clare O’Connor’s playful paintings and wearable art combine her signature stripes, colour clashes and love of abstract patterns …I’ve always really loved art. It was my favourite subject from primary school onwards. I initially studied and worked as a graphic designer. Quickly, I realised that even though it was a practical way to earn a living it just wasn’t creative enough for me, so I went back to study Fine Art in 2006 and haven’t looked back.
“My paintings are playful, intuitive, energetic and multidimensional. They are vibrant visual labyrinths full of colour, energy, flow and movement.”I developed my abstract style in college. For my graduate exhibition, I created a series of large-scale paintings defined by their clash of stripes, splashed and dripped paint marks and void. I love to juxtapose or layer organic and organised forms, patterns, collage, stripes and thrown paint.
“Residencies give me the space to fully immerse myself in my creative practice, when I throw myself into my paintings and work intensely.”I live and work from home in Meath, but I regularly go on art residencies. I find them inspiring and liberating; they give me a place to be away from my day-to-day work to solely concentrate on my art practice. Last year, I was in Cill Rialaig, Co Kerry and in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co Monaghan.
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