View from the Green Room: Colour bursts
Artist Anoushka Joyce
There was a big crowd at the opening of the Anoushka Joyce Exhibition at the Coastguard Cultural Centre in Tramore. The picturesque location with wraparound windows that scan the entire expanse of Tramore Bay was the perfect location for an exhibition that draws its inspiration from the fauna and flora of the changing coastal landscape.
The sandhills and coastline feature prominently with brushes of gold and yellow sea grass and flowers emerging from the sandy brush of the sand paths. Colours of yellow and green and hectic browns burst into life on canvasses of wild grassland where greens have many hues.
Pathways are crowded over with shadows that make connections just as the artist connects with the watching eye. Laneways with the promise of blue skies and better times ahead are quick to find that coveted red dot of approval.
A fascinating sun-drenched and shadow-splattered walkway from the pier to the Doneraile is the first picture to sell and I’m not surprised. The elegant walk down the Ladies Slip will bring many memories of happy days spent there and a wild Valerian that stands mute guard to a window box on Strand Street catches the eye.
Garrarus is here in all its winter fury and the seascape of the pier after the rain is a moody broody, landscape. A night but illuminated landscape of the town finds many shadows reflected in the dark ocean but ‘High Summer in the Sand Hills’ is just the ticket for this writer’s gaze.
Check it out. Admission is free and the exhibition is live for another few weeks.
