Lower Falls On Slate
Fine Art Belfast Painting on Slate
This Belfast urban scene has lots of interesting linear qualities.
Divis Tower almost ‘twists’ up into the sky, the viewer’s eye being pulled up and over the many layers of flats, to the mountain top where a vertical transmitter is perched proudly.
Parallel, perpendicular, and lines that intersect. Capturing ‘perfect’ perspective is not what Una is about – the detail is merely suggestive and a ‘feeling’.
The tower casts a heavy shadow over the road yet contrasting vibrant flashes of reds and yellows peek through in the form of red paint, stop signs and the double yellow lines on the road that entice our eye up the ‘Falls’.
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Una’s slate paintings are created on a roof slate from a barn on her farm, dating back to the 1800’s.
- Paintings on Slate
Paintings on slate will come attached to a white backboard and then framed in the colour of the customer’s choice.
Please allow 2 weeks for the framing process. The framed slate will then be safely packed for delivery/shipping.
Lower Falls On Slate
Now that I live away from my home city, when I return, there are some scenes that resonate as ‘Belfast’ to me.
This is one of them.
Childhood memories of this scene, still impacts me.
I remember looking up to the top of the tower from the backseat of a car and its seemingly infinite height rose up into the sky and beyond.
It some ways Divis tower seems to be out of place in this inner city area, too tall and an ‘eyesore’.
Yet, if it wasn’t there I’m certain that I would feel like something was missing.
I love to capture these unusual Belfast moments on slate.
They are painted on slates that I gather up from the old sheds in my other home of county Waterford.
A connection between my two homes.
