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Artists Statement..Valli Schafer

For the last 4 decades I have been working as a creator, making everything from oversize props for advertising photoshoots and TV commercials, to ice-sculpting for the Ice Hotel inside the Arctic Circle in Sweden.

I spent many years working around various European festivals and events as a pyrotechnician, creating spectacular night time shows!

After a lifetime of making hugely scaled-up models, I’m loving the challenge of making smaller pieces of work from my studio in the hills of Co.Sligo.

I work with all sorts of materials from metal to polymers to ceramics, and I love to combine my work with the look and texture of driftwood that I collect in my kayak while out exploring the Wild Atlantic Ocean or the beautiful lakes around Ireland.

Like many other people around the coast, sea swimming became an important part of my daily routine during and after the lockdowns, and this show reflects that part of my life for the past 18 months.

Artists Statement..Anika Baarhs..

Yakisugi or Shou Sugi Ban is a traditional Japanese wood preservation technique that involves charring wood and removing the excess charcoal to reveal the grain patterns beneath.Anika has taken this technique and applied it to recycled wood products. She then creates her items utilising a range of different finishes to create stunning decorative and functional pieces, each of which is unique and unrepeatable!
Anika works in SG Education and is open to commission requests. She can be contacted at:

teetasse@yahoo.de

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For those of you interested in working with clay, we have ranges of kiln dried and air drying clay as well as tools available here. Also see our ranges of acrylic paints, oil paints and watercolour paints, as well as our canvases and other arts & crafts supplies.

The SG Artshop supplies a range of high quality art and craft materials to local artists, both professional and recreational. We are open 6 days a week and are delighted to welcome you to this show of work.

If you would like to showcase your work in the SG Artshop little gallery, please get in touch.

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Artists Statement..

Marie O’Gara is a mixed media artist who after leaving school, went on to study fine art at the Crawford College of Art and Design Cork.  She left to pursue a career in nursing which she continued until her family were grown up.  She subsequently returned to Art, and over the last number of years has studied abstract art under several international artists.

Her roots and ancestry are here in Sligo and she is very influenced by this magical mythical place, with its deep roots in history, its evocative beautiful landscape and its rich culture.  She loves living in a coastal area and strives to create paintings that contain a piece of this world which she has been so rooted in for so many years.  A place that inspires her.  A place she feels an intimate and deep connection to.

This is Marie’s third exhibition this summer.  She has only recently returned from a 2 week exhibition in Paris which was a fantastic experience .  She is really happy to have been invited back to the SG Art Shop to exhibit her paintings.

Most of Marie’s work is mixed media with acrylic on board using the System 3 and Winsor & Newton ranges

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See our ranges of acrylic paints, oil paints and watercolour paints, as well as our canvases and other arts & crafts supplies.

The SG Artshop supplies a range of high quality art and craft materials to local artists, both professional and recreational. We are open 6 days a week and are delighted to welcome you to this show of work.

If you would like to showcase your work in the SG Artshop little gallery, please get in touch.