Münster Blue

Acrylic on Canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Artist Statement: I picked up an abandoned and fairly ugly framed print of a picture at a car boot sale in Spain. The frame was decent but needed a lick of paint. I knew I could paint over the unseemly print and turn it into something different, but I had no plan. For a couple of years, I ignored this sad picture and its frame, but then it traveled with me from Valencia, Spain to Münster, Germany and lay idling in my studio for yet another year. Suddenly, on a late autumn afternoon, a particularly unusual and astonishing blue sky over Principalmarkt in Münster caught my attention, and I immediately set to work on reproducing the almost surreal colours that I witnessed on that early evening. This is the result of my memories. This summer, the picture went on another journey. It was chosen by a young German mother for her son, to keep alive the memory of his time spent in Münster. Now it hangs in the bedroom of this young child far away in the USA, where he will be able to look at the city every day and remember where he once lived.

Nuala  McEvoy is a self-taught artist. She started painting at the age of fifty and since then has been in daily contact with her paintbrush and palette. Initially shy to show her work, she is proud that her work now appears online in places such as Red Ogre Review, Quibble Lit, Free Flash Fiction, Londemere Lit, Underbelly Press, Suburban Witchcraft and Heimat Review. She was recently interviewed by The Madrid Review about her artistic process, and in September, she was the featured artist in Does it Have Pockets. Her artwork will soon appear in The Chestnut Review, Acropolis Journal, Kitchen Table Quarterly, Peatsmoke Journal, Through Lines and Ink in Thirds. She has two exhibitions of her work in the city in Germany where she currently lives.