Paul Hallahan, Cuckoo Cocoon

115cm x 85cm / 45in x 33in
acrylic on canvas

Paul Hallahan is an Irish artist whose work is primarily based in painting, but also sometimes looks to sculpture and video. Interests within his work expand into many areas but commonly focus on how we as a species relate and interact with nature, taking art as a form or by-product of nature and our civilisation. Using various methods and techniques his paintings are built up of thin layers on mostly raw canvases which allow light move through the works and change within the spaces they are located. This has always been of interest to Hallahan as he wanted the works to be active to the viewer and transcend the composition and initial image of the work.