Mathew Street, Cork. Exhibition runs from June 2nd to Saturday June 13th. Jonathan's work combines colour and texture with innovation and imagination.
Icons are sacred images designed to point the mind of the viewer in a certain direction.
They are designed to invite the viewer to places of the soul. Before embarking on the creation of an Icon, the artist would spend much time preparing the ground of his soul for such an adventure. Similarly in the painting of the works in this exhibition, did I prepare that ground. The essence of these pieces is that they are imagined out of such soulful places, and, indeed they are an account of a journey made there. Through the language of colour and texture, they endeavour to speak of that world.