Artist Six: Tara Wade

Image: Atmospheric painting by Tara shown at an exhibition last year 

“Tara Wade is an artist that creates her work in the town of Headford in Galway. Her pieces conceptually delve into the hidden depths of human emotions that she expresses through her mixed media pieces. Her work is both layered texturally and conceptually and it illustrates her empathy and interest in people and their internal conflicts. She is inspired by artist Patrick Scott and reference of her admiration is very much illustrated in her work and in the control of her medium. 

We are delighted to be exhibiting her piece "INNER CIRCLE" with us at this year's exhibition. The process of this work began with the exploration of how we all come from our own "bizzare beginings” and how this can be the foundation to our circle of life. This piece is based on the symbol of the ring that can be referenced to feelings of trust, eternity and can be used to represent platonic and emotional love on many levels. The circle represents eternity and Tara used four canvas's to explore the inner workings of our most complicated organ, the heart. She explores the four chambers of the heart within each canvas and uses a gold substance to illustrate feelings of trust. Tara describes her concept as follows: "4 chambers of your heart showing that it's meaning, its trust, what it signifies can be broken even though it remains solid and whole for the complexity of love, your heart is so dirverse and recious you want to hold onto that symbol forever"" Ruth O’Hagan, Project Manager, The lost property project