The links between the works of Angela Ginn and Elaine Thompson - bar the friendship, mutual respect and residencies at Annamakerrig - are slight. True, Ginn has crossed the water, coming back home to paint the Mourne mountains, having studied textiles in Manchester and at Goldsmith college.
Thomspon's work was made on Suomenlinna, the island fortress which once guarded Helsinki's harbour, now an artists' refuge and World Heritage Site. Their offerings, however, work well together.
Angela Ginn's oils of the Mournes - An Sliabh, Na Sleibhte, An Bearnas, An Cnoc - urgent tossing fauvish peaks, erect and breast-like, separated by rolling arks and lubricious valleys, are of strong, feminine mountains. In counterpoint, Elaine Thompson's crushed violet water-colours, painted in the Ehrensvard museum, reflect the closeted otherworldliness of distant lives - Dresser, Table, Chair are among her titles. Perhaps Angela Ginn's vorticist An Cailin Ban agus an Cailin Dubh is a further link.
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