Kathy Tynan

Sunday Morning, 2025

Oil on canvas 

‘Sunday Morning is a portrait of my son at rest in our home. The painting is made from my reclined point of view as I observed him, aged five, cradled between my legs, watching television. Nothing else exists in the scene besides a closed door, a green wall and the edge of an old couch. It is the kind of quiet moment that can often be overlooked, but that cannot exist without the conditions of care, shelter, and safety, sometimes taken for granted.’

Maidin Domhnaigh, 2025

Olaphictiúr ar chanbhás 

‘Is portráid é Maidin Domhnaigh de mo mhac ag ligean a scíth inár dteach. Tá an pictiúr cruthaithe ó mo phointe féachana féin. Bhí mé sínte siar fad is a bhí mé ag breathnú air nuair a bhí sé cúig bliana d’aois. Tá sé ina luí idir mo chosa ag breathnú ar an teilifís. Níl aon rud eile le feiceáil sa radharc seachas doras dúnta, balla glas agus ciumhais seantoilg. Is nóiméad ciúin atá ann ar furasta neamhaird a thabhairt ar a leithéid, ach nach féidir tarlú gan aire, foscadh agus sábháilteacht, rudaí nach dtugtar aird ar bith orthu uaireanta.’

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