Words for painting
by Brigid Noone

A strong influence in my own work is a notion of attempting to make sense of my internal and external world, including such themes as, vulnerability, awkwardness, generosity, desire, love and home. These have comprised some of the dominant areas of interest in my work, with undertones of political and broader social roach.
There is a vulnerability in asking questions, to be in life without all the arrivals or outcomes? There is an important aspect of not explaining everything away.
All present and accountant for the paintings gathered. Instinct is a tricky methodology, especially when your body is so connecting in the making. Leaky art work can appear messy; watch those drips they can lead to an unravelling of all those threads that have been weaving so long.
A joy that was so overwhelming it was almost like pain, in the life and the death, in the beginning and in the making. I shall paint my voice and write my movements. To catch a glimpse of being known, a spoken letter once dreamt in love now spoken with an intention of love beyond romance. A desire to be known in the being rather than the production of self through other, and their view and experience of self, always being a desired other. ‘What is it that you think people want from you?’ he asked – a certain presence, I said.

Painting as a story that moves, the lines, the colour, the sound of sighs made in all the let go of the making in the archiving of self.
Self imposed restrictions are fear based, dull quiet what if nothing happens, I sleep forever and I miss out kind of worry. Get up with the birds, bend and move with the flow and trust that truly all is as it should be, even the slow funny, annoying times, the awkward gaps of all the unmet desires that fall through the cracks – painting and love, they love each other.