"My most recent series of paintings form part of an ongoing investigation into the question of reciprocity, of producing meaning through tension, opposition and balance.
Although abstract, these paintings refer to perceptual reality. They invoke various scales simultaneously: those of landscape and atmospheric depth, and those of close-up, haptic surface texture. They are rooted in direct experience and visual memory.
Each painting is a fragment of an experimental, iterative process, containing many layers of trial and error. The process of paint application and erasure continues until a balance of opposition is achieved: light and dark, colour and non-colour, foreground and background, centre and edge."
Bridget O'Rourke, Paris 2007

Bridget is a Paris-based graduate of the Pennsylvania School of Art. She showed in the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in Dublin in 2007, and recently exhibited at Galleria Facsimile in Milan and the Lanitis Foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus (as part of the In Transition Exhibition). She is Director of the Parsons Paris School of Art & Design.