About

My name is Rina. I create Irish landscapes in gouache and ink.

Not the postcard version. The version with grief in it. Old stone, stripped trees, fields that remember something you cannot name. I make work for people who carry Ireland with them at a distance and feel it in a particular kind of weather or light.

I work traditionally. Dip pen and ink on toned paper, gouache for atmosphere, ink for structure and commitment.

Alongside the finished work I keep sketchbooks. They are where I study other artists, work out problems, write, and find out what I actually think. Not performance. Just the necessary mess that finished work comes from.

I share these on TikTok to inspire others to also keep sketchbooks and experience the world from an artist's point of view.

This is a long project. I am building a body of work one piece at a time, rooted in the landscape of South East of Ireland where I live.

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