Artwork

The Featherbeds

Charleen’s art practice situates a human sense of time within timeless areas of natural beauty, currently focusing on the Dublin Mountain’s blanket bog Special Area of Conservation. This area of heather hills, bog, and heathland above the Glenasmole Valley on the Old Miltary Road is known locally as the Featherbeds.

She is creator and curator of The Peatlands Immersive Installation, a collaborative exhibition capturing digital fragments of Nature’s patterns, imprints and voice.

Her primary mediums are drawing and photography. In her drawings, she blends vulnerable, earthy mediums of charcoal and pastel chalk with mixed media to capture flora and fauna, changing light and season, and evidence of humanity’s marks upon the land. She shapes these interactions into expressive digital installation pieces. The result explores the tension between our briefness alongside the constant cycles of dying and rebirth; witnessing the convergence of worldly traffic  within the ethereal beauty of space and light, flora and fauna along the Featherbeds.