Nuala Herron
Nuala is a visual arts practitioner specialising in drawing and painting. She aims to tell a story through painting, encouraging a dialogue between the art and viewer.
With a background of life painting, working mainly in oils, her main focus has always been the human form. Her work also includes urban landscapes and more recently, the use of animals as symbolism, alongside human portraits. She draws on her personal life and surroundings, exploring themes of fertility and motherhood, society and more recently, the natural environment.
Looking heaven in the eye
Oil on canvas
About the work the artist said:
“In 2011, thirteen thousand Palestinian children smashed a Guinness World Record on a beach in northern Gaza for the largest number of people flying kites simultaneously. This was back when the occupied children were still able to fly kites, without at the same time being killed indiscriminately.
I was inspired to create this painting while watching the ongoing Genocide of the people of Palestine on my screen and feeling completely powerless.
This painting represents hope for an end to this horrific time in history and visions of a better future for all.
The title is taken from Refaat Alareer's poem: If I must die.”
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