Art Exhibition "illuminate" July 31, 2006

Throughout her career, Jenny McCarthy has remained faithful to the classical tradition of landscape painting –but with a twist. Her animated nimbus skies, low horizon, and stripes of equanimous sands are her signature style. Her work is informed by naturalism and optical verisimilitude – interwoven with touches of cubist brilliance.

“Illuminate” reveals a collection of work where the less hermetic world of West Kerry opens up before us. The frenetic energy and constraints of our daily lives are resolved in the harmony of McCarthy’s creations. The luminous reflection and illumination of a purer world is the dominant notion in these wonderful crystalline paintings. In their colours and forms they delicately linger between abstraction and objectivity.

The novelty of Jenny McCarthy’s style could be incorporated into the definition of “illuminate” which is “to light up, to make bright”. Her plethora of subject matter is unified through the common theme of light. Figuratively speaking the word means “to enlighten, to inform and to instruct”, McCarthy successfully achieves this through the broad spectrum of her subject matter and through her continuing belief in the power of visual sensation. The diversity in this collection alone is a promising fragment within the contemporary art world.

Jennifer Goff BA MA
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