‘I suppose my approach to painting is very much a classical one,’ Maeve McCarthy tells Aidan Dunne as she reflects on her personal style
Aidan Dunne: Maeve, you’re now based in East Wall in central Dublin?
Maeve McCarthy: I’ve been there about two and a half years and I really like my house. It’s important to me that there’s a garden.
For about five years I was living between France and Ireland. I found myself in France when Covid happened, so I spent more or less all of lockdown there. I know many people found it a difficult time – apart from Covid itself, the isolation and restrictions – but I actually liked that sense of enclosure, of pushing the world out. I get that feeling of leaving the world outside even in Dublin when I shut the door. Perhaps because it follows from leading an almost nomadic existence for a number of years.
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