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- Paul Cashin
Paul
Cashin
In the Midst of Reality
Paul Cashin is an Irish artist whose paintings continually question topics ranging from composition and surface, landscape and figuration, space and time, narrative and history, all linked under the heading of disorientation. His dreamscapes are informed by various characters and events of varying significance which have occurred throughout the past four years. He intends for his dreamscapes to appear unrelatable yet familiar, uncanny in a sense. The apparent randomness of dreams is generally accepted while experiencing them and it is this knowledge that causes these works to appear familiar. His paintings are majorly informed by either his own photography or that of found and appropriated imagery.
The space between the fragmented layers creates an illusion that disrupts and confuses the eye. This can make the painting quite uncomfortable to look at as the image is ever changing and never stationary due to the stance and movement of the viewer. Nor can it ever totally match up with its opposite layer due to its separation. The action in the painting is trapped in a non-existent, ever-changing space, it has already happened, it is happening now, and it will happen as long as the piece exists.
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