Created during an artist residency along Ireland's Wild Atlantic Coast, Echoes in the Wind II is part of a landmark three-painting series exploring landscape as memory, endurance, and transformation.
Rather than depicting a specific place, the work distills the experience of weather, geology, and time into layered gesture, luminous color, and quiet movement.
Painted through direct observation and sustained studio practice, the surface reflects the rhythms of growth, erosion, and renewal found within one of the world's most elemental coastlines. The result is a painting that continues to reveal itself over time, inviting sustained looking and offering a lasting presence within a collection.
DETAILS
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on professional-grade unstretched canvas
Size: 44" w × 60" h (actual artwork)
Finish: UV-protective varnish
Presentation: Ships rolled for the safest transportation and professional local stretching or framing. Studio framing is available upon request prior to shipment.
Original: One one-of-one original painting — not a print
Shipping: Complimentary U.S. shipping included.
Collected slowly. Lived with deeply.
© Mary Elizabeth Marvin — All Rights Reserved
Collected slowly. Lived with deeply.
© Mary Elizabeth Marvin — All Rights Reserved
One of One — Original Artwork
XL in Size - Ships Rolled
About This Series Echoes in the Wind I, II & III
Created during artist residency, Wild Atlantic Coast, Ireland
Echoes in the Wind is a three-part series conceived and painted during my residency along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Coast—a landscape shaped by relentless weather, exposed rock, and quiet persistence. These works draw directly from native wildflowers, seed dispersal, and the remarkable intelligence of biodiversity that survives—and thrives—in seemingly inhospitable terrain.
Layered color, gestural movement, and intentional mark-making mirror natural systems at work: growth carried by wind, resistance shaped by stone, and renewal unfolding over time. Vivid passages emerge and dissolve, echoing cycles of dispersal and return. Marks are never incidental; each line, scrape, and interruption records a physical dialogue with place, weather, and endurance.
Together, Echoes in the Wind I, II & III function as both individual statements and a unified narrative—an exploration of survivorship, adaptation, and quiet resilience. The series invites sustained viewing, revealing complexity and balance beneath apparent spontaneity.
Designed for collectors and spaces that value depth, movement, and meaning, this series reflects a lived experience of landscape and the poetry of persistence. One-of-one original works, collected slowly and intended to be lived with deeply.
Details Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on professional-grade canvas
Size: 44 w x 60 h x .01 d d - Ships Rolled
Finish: UV-protective varnish
Framing: Available upon request
© Mary Elizabeth Marvin
