Sorcha Harm is a painter, exploring portraiture and figurative painting developed from themes of personal identity and humanity. Her methodology is both experimental and process-based. Having developed her skills in the subject area and grown a deeper understanding of the strengths of expressing through different media forms, she has experimented with multidisciplinary practices that strengthen the context behind her paintings. Though she is open to experimenting and putting contemporary twists on her work, Sorcha loves to work in a traditional style with traditional techniques.
In her most recent work, Sorcha has observed her own personal relationship to anxiety as well as how we relate to each other when we’re in a place of emotional turmoil. Among these paintings she has honed in her painting skill and focussed on the tactile quality of skin, and used her colour palette to give her subjects a semi-absent opaque presence.
These paintings are a continuation from her last series that visually and contextually represented her own feelings of isolation in relation to how she processes anxiety. This series of paintings follows the same concept but they have a positive message. By depicting other people in the same body language as her previous paintings, Sorcha hopes to show both herself and everyone else that we all feel isolated at times, so we can take comfort in the fact we all experience this and we’re all united in our human experience of emotion, particularly the negative and how we respond to it.
Sorcha Harm 