Adrian Flaherty Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW and how strong the mixture is, or even the sequence that the paint was applied can totally transform the piece. So it is the living process of trying to achieve effects in the scene in the early stages that dictates most of the range of colours in each painting. You have a background in Architecture and as you have remarked once, you havean underlying interest in location discovering new places that are related to a wider idea of where you are from. Inthis sense, we dare say that your works could be considered a response to direct experience mediated by the lens of memory: do you agree with this interpretation? In particular, how does your everyday life's experience and your memories fuel your creative process? Adrian Flaherty: The inspiration for my paintings, as I just alluded to, and the feelings do very much come from the experiences and the interests I have had, not just on the walks, but also the contrast of living my life in the city. Between this and the calm of walking along the riverbanks away from traffic and the crowds in the first series, or along the cliffs with its often-buffeting winds and crashing waves. These are important when combined with the graceful movement of clouds and of the light and shade that makes the scene in front of me, and the textures that come with that. Some paintings have ended up on the walls of my new house and I find it is great to live with them and relive some of the feelings I have tried to express, not least because some aspects might influence another painting later on down the line. The decision to return to landscape painting, and these seascapes, some 20 years later can be seen to be very much influenced by my recollection of my Geography studies at school, and my