Adrian Flaherty Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW projects are you currently working on, and what are some of the ideas that you hope to explore in the future? Adrian Flaherty: The Cliffs and Beaches series is one that I’ll be working on for a very long time I think because my aim is eventually to walk the West Coast of England, having only walked on the southwest coastline so far. I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of the landscapes and seascapes that can be found there. Currently, however, after going to a life drawing class to do something different, I am working from watercolour studies I made there transferring them into my current style mostly using my string and fluid paint technique. I predominantly use the three primary colours in these paintings with the imparted belief that red is positivity, blue negative and expression itself signified by yellow. So, I have tried to express in this way some of the human struggle in these psychological states according to the poses of the models. I also mix things up sometimes with an abstract piece or a sculpture for my home, and so I just hope to keep my ideas and work fresh and developing. In much the same way as the paint flows around my canvases I will see what it leads to … It was great being able to allow a better understanding of my work here, so many sincerest thanks go to the LandEscape team for this opportunity to express myself! An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator [email protected]