Evening Walks Through Learned Cities

Evening Walks Through Learned Cities
Original Painting | Acrylic on Canvas | Framed

Evening Walks Through Learned Cities came out of frequent visits to the botanical gardens in Dublin, and from long conversations with a statue of Socrates. It was also shaped by reading W.H. Auden’s Paysage Moralise. I wanted the painting to hold something of that inner wandering — the way thought, place, memory, and imagination can begin to overlap.

The surface is dense with colour and layered mark-making. A field of blue settles through the lower half of the painting, while above it the texture becomes more intricate, almost like a city forming in fragments, reflections, or passing light. I was interested in that meeting point between the physical world and the one built inwardly through reading, walking, and reflection.

Although abstract, the painting carries a sense of journey. It is a work about contemplation, atmosphere, and the strange way certain places become tied to thought — not just where you have been, but where your mind has travelled while you were there.

Details
Title: Evening Walks Through Learned Cities
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.8 in)
Presentation: Framed in a black wood float frame, ready to hang, sealed with protective varnish
Signature: Signed on the front, with signature, title, and year on the verso
Certificate of Authenticity included