Hello, welcome to my art website. I am Bridgid.
I have been making art all my life but over the past 15 years, I have steadily refined my style into two distinct veins. These two styles are linked but unique pathways of expression of my inner self and my experience.
The first to develop was the energy style. In pieces like Protest, Psychic Contagion and Thoroughly Modern Mythology, there is an intensity and what I think of as a high vibration manifestation of my psyche. I learned early in my education that all art is a self-portrait. These paintings are representative of the inner fire, intense desires, motivations and yearnings within me. The energy pieces have a frenzied and active composition and represent the side of me that is drawn towards action, movement and growing my power.
During the last few years, the meditation style began to develop very much as a result of my desire to use my studio practice as a time for introspection and reflection. Now, more than ever, I feel the need to use my time creating work as an opportunity to just be in the here and now. As I work in this newer style, the work has transitioned into pieces I feel are more mature, subtle and delicate. The meditation style pieces like Warm Blizzard, Ceremony and Meditative Resonance encouraged a sense of peace, calm and ease.
As ever, my greatest influence comes from a deep connection and love for the natural world. As I continue to evolve as an artist, my understanding of the elaborate interconnectedness of our world feels increasingly significant. Human connection is something that is entirely critical to my experience and continues to shape my work. Discussions with people about their varied interpretations and impressions of my abstractions is illuminating and often unexpected. The most cherished thing for me about creating abstract work is communicating in a way that transcends words and forms connections.