Mary Winters-Doran

Mary Winters-Doran gained a B. A. Honours in Fine Art and has exhibited widely throughout Northern Ireland in both group and solo exhibitions, and has even exhibited as far as Ohio, USA.

“I confront ongoing themes such as love and death, memory and dreams, looking for movements and gestures that generate a spiritual energy, the main concern being to capture a sentiment of emotions, melancholy sensuality in contrast to tenderness and compassion. Through the exploration of colour, light, contrast and perspective I create an earthiness to my characters. Their physical presence and vitality is countered by a sense of their alienation and isolation achieving elusive, enigmatic and ambiguous forms. My works are refined through past experiences and technicalities. I take a figure in its simplest and most traditional form and develop it using different marks. I explore unforseen qualities within the painting through shadows and contours as it emerges into a contemporary and ultramodern piece.”