Geraldine O'Sullivan, a native of West Cork, graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a First Class Honours Diploma in 1981. She now lives and paints from her studio in Ballylibert, Castlefreke, West Cork. Geraldine is an artist whose work is continually evolving. Her techniques include mixing acrylic and pastel, scratching and layering paint, all in the search to create distinct images. Geraldine tries to capture in her paintings a sense of place that is unique to West Cork.

Artist Statement
The new 'Interior' work by Geraldine O'Sullivan features the ordinary and extraordinary, she through her work allows the viewer to access the unknown, the magical and the hidden.
O Sullivan uses 'collage' as the starting point upon which she builds these rich canvases.Collage is an ancient art form however it was during the modernist era that the genre really came into its own.More than any other form of artmaking, collage offers a retreat from logic and reason transforming the familiar into the strange and fantastic.Like alchemy, it allows the emergence of unexpected elements,tearing a hole in the fabric of reality and opening up experience into the realms of dreams and the subconscience.The ground work for the canvases is the traditional tearing and pasteing of printed images.However Geraldine O'Sullivan has taken the process a step further by employing inkjet printing of selected images onto the canvas and then the building up of painted panels mimicing the torn edges of the paper.Layering paint on paint until the work is complete.