Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the second Green show for the month of May 2024. The show encompassed a range of artistic styles and mediums (oil on canvas, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, ceramics, photography, digital art). Each submission has been judged based on the following elements of artistic expression: orginality and quality of art, overall design, creativity, interpretation of the theme, demonstration of artistic ability and usage of medium. Out of all entries, 85 artworks were shortlisted for inclusion in the show. The competition attracted entries from many countries across the world: South Korea, USA, Poland, Portugal, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, China, Germany, Slovenia and Ireland. Enjoy the show and thank you for expressing an interest in our competition.

I enjoy exploring and celebrating the landscape that many walk by without notice. “Under Siege” focuses on a moment in time where light modulates the subject in multiple ways. Light illuminates the lily pads; it brings the sky to the surface of the water and light is interrupted to reveal the natural system under the surface of the water. The importance of these small wetland areas to the health of the natural world can’t be understated. This painting serves as a reminder that our interventions into natural areas need to be carefully considered or discouraged when we move to remove them for human use.

My paintings always associate with the surrounding landscape. I paint from memory, but often inspired by continuous journeys through the Irish countryside, especially the Shannon region where I live. Reacting to visual and atmospheric elements around me, the resulting work is meditative for both myself and observers. This brings a quiet beauty to my paintings.

I am a fine art printmaker whose been making art and living in Brooklyn all my life. Most of my imagery is inspired by this place of constant growth – the juxtaposition of hard-edged buildings escalating ever taller with the trees and plants growing in parks, along streets, and in sidewalk cracks despite all odds. I revel in this city’s unpredictable creative collaboration, including its challenges. My work too isn’t all planned out. Rather I take one step after another to build a complexity of overlapping chaos and boundaries. A former layout artist before digital publishing, I draw with a blade – cutting across the surfaces of wood, metal, plastic, linoleum, Plexiglass or matboard to express the mysterious rhythms of this place and my own inner knowing. Flowers and leaves bump up against human trash of foil, mesh, cardboard and milk cartons to give the plate added texture. Working hand-in-hand with a skilled master printmaker to ink the plate, there is the moment of pulling a print off the press, each one a unique surprise.

In meinen Bildern werden Gedanken und Emotionen sichtbar, dabei klingt als Grundtenor bei den Arbeiten oft die Thematik „Sein und Vergehen“. Wichtig dabei ist mir auch das besondere Detail, Ausschnitte dem Ganzen entrückt. Das künstlerische Bearbeiten der Bilder vollziehe ich am Computer, das kann man so verstehen, als würde ein Maler mit dem Pinsel mehrere Schichten Farben auftragen und dann partiell wieder entfernen, vergleichbar vielleicht auch mit einer (digitalen) Collage. Thoughts and emotions become visible in my pictures, and the theme of “being and passing away” is often the underlying theme of the works. What is also important to me is the special detail, the details removed from the whole. I do the artistic processing of the pictures on the computer, which can be understood as if a painter were applying several layers of paint with a brush and then partially removing them again, perhaps comparable to a (digital) collage.