Composition

‘I’m interested in how we read images, how little is enough to be legible, how reflections can act as light and memory. By using paint, I can give those sideglances a moment of slow attention. By using photography, I can capture them.’
This twovolume publication from Shirley Irons brings together an overview of the artist’s paintings to date, alongside multifaceted reflections on art, artmaking, and landscape through a selection of her short essays and stories. Irons’s subtle oil paintings o...