Brian Callaghan
"Every now and again an artist comes along with something different."
This is one of my favourite pieces of Art in recent years, and is called ‘Purple Haze’ by Bailieborough based Artist Maria Jordan-O’Reilly. It captured my gaze at the Bailieborough Creative Hub, ‘Past Times’ exhibition for Heritage Week 2019 to the extent that I kept coming back to it again and again throughout the exhibition, and again in conversations with Maria, until eventually it became mine just before Christmas last year.
Every now and again an artist comes along with something different.
When I look at it I can almost see Hendrix on stage with his purple headband, tassled white shirt and white strat, and feel the opening chords to Voodoo Child or Foxy Lady reverberate out to me from the centre of the piece.
In the same way that it caught my eye last year,
it’s vibrant, almost psychedelic spirals stops visitors in their tracks,
curious to know the story behind it and the artist who created it.
It’s one of 4 beautiful pieces by Maria that I own, and I hope to add more in future.
