Marie Cullen
Born in the Ancient Kingdom of Oriel 8,960 years after people first came there!

This body of work is concerned with the geological and mythological landscape of Ireland.

Legacy of Man.

The first chapter of any place is that which can be read in the rocks hidden below the surface.

The bogs of Ireland are the great repository of the past; and beauty of the present.

"Great slabs of rock which are almost as flat and undisturbed as they were when they were formed in the warm, shallow seas of the Carboniferous Ocean, 340,000,000 years ago."

"A palimpsest of skeletal monuments, fashioned of the ever-present stone, at every period of human exploitation of the Burren, now litter the stripped and abandoned pavements, one of the starkest reminders in the Irish landscape of how dramatically we can alter and deplete its precious resources when we do not understand or take adequate account of the forces that interact to maintain its delicate balance."(John Feehan)

Marie's work is mixed-media collage and oil paint on canvas or board.