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Marie Carroll

Marie Carroll was born in St John’s Wood, London where she received her formal training at the Goldsmith College of Art. Here she spent three years learning and developing her masterly control of light and colour; before moving to Ireland in the 1970’s. She fell in love with the vibrant, bustling streets and historic parts of Dublin. She was captivated by Dublin City’s manifold enticements and this provided the inspiration and the subject matter for her delightful paintings for more than forty years.

Her techniques and themes reflect her interest in the painterly concerns of French Impressionism, which she modernises through her use of strong harmonious colours, illustrating the success in which she assimilates aspects of Impressionism while staying true to her own idiosyncrasies.

Compiled of a harmonious range of hues, she creates compositions in which she mixen herself with the crowd on one of Dublin's most bustling thoroughfares, Grafton Street, and plays the role of an onlooker at a wedding outside Dublin's monumental Shelbourne Hotel. The insouciant crowds and busy, scurrying waitresses inside favourite Dublin meeting places, Bewleys and the Shelbourne, are brought to throbbing life as they are captured in a riot of harmonious colours, applied with a seemingly spontaneous yet masterly hand, She sees Dublin as a feminine city and Dublin is indeed the heroine of her paintings.

In contrast to these urban scenes of well-known Dublin landmarks, rural scenes, including country cottages from the West of Ireland and seascapes along the Irish coastline, have also dominated her oeuvre. For these paintings, Mane tends to abandon the striking palette her Dublin scenes are famously known for, in favour of a much softer palette comprising of earthy tones, perhaps in reflection of the outdoor subject matter Her work which is greatly inspired by the Irish coastline and its tradition of sailing and beach activities in dominated by swirling and sweeping brushstrokes. Her sailing scenes, which capture the dynamic movement of the sea, are painted en plein air, thus capturing the spontaneity of the moment, again reflecting the ideals of French Impressionism so prominent in her work