Lucienne O’Mara’s paintings unlock the linear structure of the grid, reimagining it as a site of tension between control, emotion, logic, and intuition collide. Her freehand geometry wrestles with the expressive force of colour with the physicality of brushwork, transforming structure from a static framework into a living, breathing, field of energy. The structure is something felt rather than measured.

Through the enforced limitations of her chosen structures and repetition, O’Mara explores the unrepeatable nature of perception. Her constructed paintings mirror the way in which our vision constructs our own personal reality.

O’Mara’s artistic vision is deeply shaped by personal experience. After a brain injury in 2017 affected her sight, she had to relearn how to "see," transforming uncertainty into creative possibility. Her paintings attempt to make tangible the invisible process of perception. The way images, memories, and sensations overlap and dissolve. In this continual reconstruction of space, O’Mara’s work seeks to locate something real within the act of perception itself. A momentary truth born from the uncertainty of looking.
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