Introduction to exhibition
"One of the things which most struck me about the Galapagos Islands was the way the birds and animals were quite indifferent to man as if we had stumbled upon Eden before the fall.
"Giant tortoises, iguanas, flightless cormorants and a myriad of other creatures exist untroubled on their shores. My paintings portray these animals integrated with their natural habitat.
"I have striven to convey something of the unique geographic features of this strip of volcanic islands, the myriad of exotic colours and plants combined with the extraordinary and abundant animal life they shelter untroubled by all that threatens the natural evolution of our planet."
Tuëma Pattie
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Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin and studied at Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London.
Tuëma Pattie has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Hibernian Summer Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London and the Mall Gallery, London for the past five years. She has also exhibited at the Chichester Open, the Devenish Gallery, Enniskillen, and she is regularly featured in the Jorgensen Gallery Dublin. Tuëma has carried out many commissions and has had her work used on the covers of Festival and Exhibition programmes.
She is now painting with the Sussex Group of painters, and with Robin Child at Devizes, Wiltshire.
"Creating a painting is half what is seen and understood and half what lies in the artist's imagination. As the poet or writer does with his or her 'act of creation', the facts are there: it is how one brings them to life that matters.
Life's experiences, mood and state of mind all play a part in that act of creation, one cannot deny that the 'free spirit' brings a touch of other worldliness to painting: that is the magic". |
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