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Seán Mulcahy is an engineer and artist. He has shown in
Dublin, Sligo, at EVA in Limerick, Richard Demarco in
Edinburgh, at Ireland House, New York and Smith College,
Massachusetts. His works on paper — Placescapes — explore
the relationships between painting and music.
'Placescape XXI
'Placescape I'
Imprints of Placescapes
"Much is written by
philosophers, physicists, synesthesians, mathematicians and
artists on the correspondences of light and sound, colour
and tone, painting and music. In concept, the works are
based on limited keyboard chords - within three octaves of
twelve half-tone colour values, akin to the modern twelve
half-tone chromatic music scale — harmony rather than
melody. The process of Imprinting is somewhat aleatory,
chancy — less so with practice. It produces two copies, with
variations, and results in a texture and a fractal pattern
particular to the medium, be it acrylic, tempera or oil. The
colours and outline forms are composed and controlled. The
forms within are wayward and result in the range of
variations." Seán Mulcahy
'Placescape XX'
'Placescape XXIII'
'Placescape III'
'Placescape
VII'
'Placescape
XI'
'Placescape
XII'
'Placescape
XIII'
'Placescape
XIV'
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