Adrian Flaherty Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW what I lack in experiencing the specific location for longer, is countered by the experience of the paint and in the act of making the painting, and how it takes on a life of its own often as it slowly mixes and dries out. This is often wrestled with to bring it back to be more like the original scene but also fairly often the chance occurrences in the paint creates a new scene entirely or a weather condition in the Cliffs and Beaches series. This chance method can also be used to add something else to the work that wasn’t what I saw originally. In this way light effects, or the movements of water and clouds can also become very imagined, and ideas develop for more surreal parts, as the paint flows into different areas. Pieces can also become quite abstract working with the unexpected. So there is usually a general plan of what I want to achieve but I'm always looking for, or finding new ways to show the contrasts between chance and reason, or reality and more of an experience. You are a versatile artist and your works convey such stimulating visual ambivalence, able to walk the viewers to develop personal interpretations. Austrian Art historian Ernst Gombrich once remarked the importance of providing a space for the viewers to project onto, so that they can actively participate in the creation of the illusion: how important is it for you to trigger the viewers' imagination in order to address them to elaborate imagination, playing within your artistic personal interpretations? In particular, how production? open would you like your works to be understood? Adrian Flaherty: Painting from photos and Adrian Flaherty: I think it’s very important that sketches is obviously different to working en my paintings trigger the imagination plein air, but the fluidity of the paint transporting the viewer into being in the important to a lot of my paintings is not landscape in these two series’. The paintings possible unfortunately outdoors. But maybe are made with the initial objective to be felt