Local artists give their take on 'Transitions'

Local artists Teresa Doyle and Ursula Meehan are to hold a joint show - "Transitions" - at the Market House Gallery in Mullingar from Sunday November 8 to November 26.The two, who were behind the hugely successful An Post "C Both Sides" art project, which encouraged members of the public to create their own postcards for a national exhibition, are now focused fully on their own creativity, and have put together a fascinating show, which, after next week's launch, can be viewed daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays to Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays.In her works, Teresa has looked around her for inspiration, to the tasks and chores of daily life - including her experiences over a Summer spent undertaking the extremely physical work that is involved in being turfcutting. She looks at the knowledge that people gain and the skills they hone through the repetition of tasks, and the ritual and reverence attached to them.Tersea looks closely at form, colour and movement while representing, as if seeing for the first time, all that is so ordinary around her.Influenced by the drawings of Giacometti and Jack Donavan's collages, the artist, with economic use of pencil and collage, works from life and memory to tell of who and what she encounters in her daily engagements.Ursula Meehan's new work invites people to connect to her paintings on an abstract level.Denying representational images, the paintings linger in a half world where forms almost happen and it is for the onlooker to see what they see.Ursula has evolved her painting technique through deliberate explorations in mark-making and use of everyday implements as painting tools. Influenced by the natural textures of her North Westmeath environment, from hill to quarry, reflective puddle to weather worn buildings, she creates layers and transparencies which resonate with subtle depths and hues to be revealed on the periphery of the mind.