Chinese Ink Painting 'Wild Garlic' - 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.

Wild garlic appears as one of the first signs of spring, gathered in March when it grows freely in hedgerows and woodland edges. The act of picking it becomes a seasonal ritual—returning to familiar places, collecting what nature offers at a specific moment in time.

Once brought home, it is transformed into fresh pesto or soup, simple preparations that hold the sharpness and freshness of the season. These small acts of gathering and cooking reflect a close relationship with place, where ingredients are not just used, but experienced in their moment of abundance.

Wild garlic becomes a reminder of timing, return, and the quiet rhythm of seasonal living.

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