A wee intro…

Hi, I’m Cheryl and I live in the heart of Ulster!

I am creating a way for you to engage meaningfully and spiritually with your past. I paint the Ulster and Irish scenery, homes/homesteads and re-imagine ancient places. Each artwork is infused with local earth, and vegetation dyes making them a tangible connection with the area. The paints and dyes are mixed with mountain water which is also spritzed to energise the work.

I create calligraphy pieces and hand craft family trees and can help with your research. Whatever you choose, your ancestors and home places will be treated with respect and remembered forever.

Whether you class yourself Northern Irish, Ulster-Scot, British, Celt or Irish, you will find a place here.

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About me…

I was very lucky to be brought up in a warm and happy home full of family tales, myths, songs, ballads and sense of history. Whilst I didn’t necessarily appreciate them fully at the time, they stuck with me until I came of an age to realise their importance. I also lost a close family member at an early age, and as years went by realised that I didn’t have many solid mementos to hold on to and over time this became a longing which in turn pointed me to where I am today.

Moving on a few years and after Art College I started noticing how I was focused on the atmosphere and aura of places and things. Abandoned houses draw me in; these sad, empty and lonely old homesteads used to be alive, full of love and warmth with real people growing up, living and working inside them. You just need to touch a stone wall to be transported back in your mind. I am also intrigued and overawed by the signs from the past, stone circles, standing stones, ancient symbols – we have an abundance in this country and they can reach to the depths of your soul.

As a consequence, my work aims to bring a spiritual, emotional and soulful connection to lives and places past and present. All lovingly painted, I infuse the paints with local flora, earth, paint shavings mixed with pure, clean, mountain water. All paintings are spritzed with pure mountain water to energise them and create this spiritual attachment with your ancestors and homeland, also something worthy to be passed down through future generations…

  • Your ancestors and places they lived preserved for you through paintings.
  • Your family homestead painted or re-imagined
  • A  church maybe or a school they were connected with.
  • Your family tree or texts hand-illustrated.                                                                                                                             

 

My Mission

My mission is to bring you a spiritual and soulful connection with your homeland and past peoples.

 

 

My Vision

My vision is to create a real and deep connection for diaspora across the world to the people, places and events that have gone before.

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 cheryl@anirishinfluence.com