Emma Hayes

A R T : E M M A H A Y E S

Takeaway Box, 2021 First Walk Through Dublin Zoo, 2020 Childhood Dreams, 2018

Past and Present Evocations, Facebook Air Program 2019

My name is Emma Hayes. I am a visual artist, primarily a painter, working in my studio in Dunboyne, Co Meath. I have work in public and private collections including the Office of Public Works and Facebook Air Program and have shown in various exhibitions around Ireland. My work is informed by my internalised experiences, childhood memories and immediate surroundings. Through collage, paint and installation, I am interested in the process of making a picture. How I apply paint is important to me. Painting with oil on canvas, I use gestural marks, confident brushstrokes, minimal strokes, layering and overlapping shapes, opacities, and translucencies to convey personal attachments to my environment and around home life. I am interested in how we represent ourselves within our own environment through saturated colours, layered elements, and our experiences. There is an evocation of the absence and presence of people in my life. I reflect on past and present relationships with people by associating objects with them. I like to make them present in my work without the figure been notably present. In the studio I work on several pieces at once. This consists of taking photos, drawing, making paper cut outs and painting simultaneously. I have a collection of different colours, textures, and brushstrokes of acrylic painted paper for my collages. The collages are a starting point to recreate the photos I take. I make my own painted paper by painting sheets in various shades and colours with acrylic paint. I use different acrylic mediums to get different opacities and translucencies, such as fluid retarder and gloss medium. I use different brushes and brushstrokes to give the paper different textures. My collages allow me to loosen up and to create a minimal compositions.

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Website: www.emmahayesart.com IG: @ __emma_ hayes__

I am interested in creating works through decision making and exploration of paint. I like to depict the everyday impressions that are significant in my life with carefully considered brushstrokes and a determined lightness of touch. I tend to work on many paintings at once, building up layers gradually and carefully creating one sweeping brushstroke and then reflecting and this process goes on until the work is completed. I have built up my own recurring library of motifs that signify my internalised experiences through the painterly qualities that are important to me and important in how I make work.