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Roads Into Rivers
Acrylic on Raw Canvas
Bart O’Reilly’s Earlier Than Sometimes series begins with color—not as a fixed element, but as a shifting sensation. While rooted in a process-driven approach, the work evolves into an exploration of memory, mood, and the ephemeral nature of lived experience. Transparent pigments and washes of acrylic and water interact with raw canvas to create veils of light and atmosphere, allowing water, pigment, and gravity to guide the outcome.
These paintings evoke a sense of place that feels interchangeable—like fleeting thoughts or shifting clouds. Minimal in form yet layered in process, each piece captures a moment of quiet resolution, shaped by mood, time, and the delicate balance between control and surrender.
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Bart O’Reilly’s Earlier Than Sometimes series begins with color—not as a fixed element, but as a shifting sensation. While rooted in a process-driven approach, the work evolves into an exploration of memory, mood, and the ephemeral nature of lived experience. Transparent pigments and washes of acrylic and water interact with raw canvas to create veils of light and atmosphere, allowing water, pigment, and gravity to guide the outcome.
These paintings evoke a sense of place that feels interchangeable—like fleeting thoughts or shifting clouds. Minimal in form yet layered in process, each piece captures a moment of quiet resolution, shaped by mood, time, and the delicate balance between control and surrender.
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Year
2024
Materials
Acrylic on Raw Canvas
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Signed by Artist
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Dimensions
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS
24 x 12 3/4 inches
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24 x 12 3/4 inches
Unframed: 24 x 12 3/4 inches
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About the Artist
Bart O'Reilly
Bart O’Reilly is an Irish painter based in Bel Air, Maryland, USA. He teaches at The John Carroll School and has shown work in Baltimore, Chestertown, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Kentucky as well as in Ireland and Northern Ireland. In 2000 he received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He received his MFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 where he received MICA’s MFAST award. He has also received grants from The Baltimore Social Innovation Journal and an Individual Artists Award from The Baltimore Office of Promotions of the Arts. In 2022 he published his first book My Father’s Work Shed with Resource Publications. It is a collection of poetry and painting spanning 11 years of work.

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Bart O’Reilly’s Earlier Than Sometimes series begins with color—not as a fixed element, but as a shifting sensation. While rooted in a process-driven approach, the work evolves into an exploration of memory, mood, and the ephemeral nature of lived experience. Transparent pigments and washes of acrylic and water interact with raw canvas to create veils of light and atmosphere, allowing water, pigment, and gravity to guide the outcome.
These paintings evoke a sense of place that feels interchangeable—like fleeting thoughts or shifting clouds. Minimal in form yet layered in process, each piece captures a moment of quiet resolution, shaped by mood, time, and the delicate balance between control and surrender.