View from the Hugh Lane, Acrylic on Linen, 60x50cm (2025) Currently included in the Swift Summer Open Exhibition, Trim. Running until 02/08/2025.

Error, Hand Made, Graphite on Fabriano, 76x52cm (2025)

Absent Presence. Graphite on paper, 50x90cm, © 2025

Devil is in the Detail. Graphite on paper, 50x90cm, © 2025

Handmade. Graphite on Fabriano. 45x49cm (approx) © 2025. Currently included in the Cairde Visual as part of the Cairde Arts Festival, Sligo. Running until 25/07/2025.

Work in Three Panels (2024). Acrylic on Linen, 70cm x 200cm. Currently included in the 195th Annual Exhibition in the RHA, Dublin.

Work in Four Panels (2024) Acrylic On Linen. 70cm x 200cm 2024. Currently included in the 195th Annual Exhibition in the RHA, Dublin.

I paint what I am visually drawn to… objects, people or scenes that I feel compelled to.
At the moment I am painting building sites or more specifically the image that I see when a curtain hides the work in progress of a building site. I like the complexity of the angles and lines, shapes and colours. I also like the temporary nature of the hoarding/curtain. That it is hiding something and all will be revealed in time. Everything is a ‘work in progress’ and it is this ‘progress’ that I am drawn to.
I recently painted my son at 18, he too is a ‘work in progress’
I am interested in the technical aspect of painting… application, colour mixing and truth.

Annette Smyth
August 2024

Previous related work, Abbey St. (2023)

Previous related work, Yellow Hoarding 2 (2022)