Chinese Ink Painting 'Spoon Jar' - Origional Art Work

This work continues the Making Home theme, focusing on the Irish kitchen and the memories people carry through the objects that once filled it.

Kitchens are never just functional spaces—they hold stories, habits, and inherited ways of living. In Ireland, many of these memories are tied to everyday objects that shaped domestic life, often quietly marking the rhythm of the seasons.

Kitchens are never just functional spaces—they hold stories, routines, and the quiet acts of care that shape family life. Preparing dinner becomes a daily ritual of attention and repetition, where simple tools and ingredients take on deeper meaning.

Among these domestic objects are jars filled with wooden spoons—simple, familiar tools that gather over time. In the Irish kitchen, wooden spoons are not only for cooking; they become part of daily life, passed from hand to hand, resting in pots, leaning in jars, always within reach.

They hold traces of use and repetition, shaped by countless meals and quiet routines. As they accumulate together, they form a kind of domestic archive—objects that speak of care, continuity, and the shared rhythms of preparing food at home.

Size: approx 300 x 300 mm

Material: Ink on Xuan paper (natural fibre). Due to the nature of the material, slight texture, buckling, or creasing may occur as part of the process. Works are sold unframed and can be flattened/stretched and framed on request with additional cost. Each piece carries my red seal.

Origional Ink Painting