Amaya Rourke: Artist

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Contemporary artist on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula + astrologer for physical art-makers. Skyscapes, studio notes, weather, and creative praxis. https://amayarourke.substack.com/

A painting of a dark storm cloud. Rendered in bruised, midnight blues, turbulent teals, and the deep, shadowed greens of the Kerry coastline, this painting explores the sheer physical weight of an impending tempest. The heavy, textured impasto of the looming cloud arches over the landscape like a cresting wave, bloated and pregnant with rain.
A painting of a large, billowing cloud with a heavy dark bottom, building over a green undulating field.
An original painting of a wave forming against a moody purple-grey sky, sea foam adorning dark rocks and sandy sea bed; by Amaya Rourke.
Image of this quote: “The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!” ― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain