Ed O'Donnelly
Themes
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Analogies and relationships.
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Evidence of human habitation in landscape.
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Cyclical patterns, geological formations, archaeological evidence.
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Layers of time, as in sedimentary layers of rock, as in the pages of books, as in piles of letters...
Natural processes and patterns, the human mind, the visual medium of expression.
Source and subject:
Sea Stories Images and text from maritime history and literature.
Urns & Jars Internment, preservation, containment.
Layers Geological layers, pages of books.
Correspondence Archives of letters, distant conversations, layers of personal archive.
First Footfall First human imprints after the Ice Age
One Green Field The framing of an impulse.
Arctic Words Forms of ice above and below surface. Inuit names for ice.
Chemical Cauldron Hydrothermal vents.
Wordless Dialogues They speak for themselves.
Axeheads. Time.
Nylon Twisted pieces of rope - released tension.
Serpentine Energy - chemistry.
Snake and Ladders. Exploration of design...
All paintings water colour on Arches 640grm paper
![]() inbox II | ![]() Arctic 640x640mm | ![]() Rags 340x260mm |
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![]() Correspondence IV 635x392mm | ![]() Post 230x300mm | ![]() Folders 900x600mm |
![]() Timeline 630 x 502mm |
Ice and Words 262 x 262mm sold


Arctic 288 x 275mm
sold
sold
sold


Letters to Orkney 780 x 560mm sold
Kist 650 x 655mm. sold

Silence & Noise 905 x 595mm

First Foot Fall 515 x 515mm


Draft 480 x 460mm
Cloud 600 x 900mm sold

o+l=s 700mm x 700mm sold

say something 850 x690mm

black feather 470x470mm

white feathers 470x470mm

False Oatgrass I 600 x 400mm sold

Layers 940 x625mm

Fallen Letters 700 x 700mm. 2019


Jade Axe 950x 650mm. 2020


Broken 950 x 750mm sold. 2021

Red Band 950 x 950mm sold. 2021

Broken II 720x525. 2021

Twist 1134 X 840mm 2021
Maritime 950x 650mm sold
Root 1150X 850mm 2021


Advent
watercolour 880 x680mm
Loosely based on ocean hydrothermal vents and their chemistry
Tangle Shore
watercolour 1390 x 960mm
Intertidal zone
