In all these works I use thin layers of paint on semi-transparent surfaces, so that light can move through them and alter what appears. Depending on where you stand, the paintings can shift, sometimes coming into focus before dissolving again into atmosphere. I want that instability to feel present, because it mirrors how experience and memory constantly reshape one another.

Painting for me is a way to stay inside that uncertainty. It allows for a kind of attention that is slow and unguarded, where looking becomes a form of thought. The title Set Adrift on Memory Bliss feels right because it speaks to that sense of drifting, of allowing memory and perception to carry you somewhere without the need to arrive.

These works are about that movement, the quiet rhythm between what is seen, what is remembered, and what might still be waiting to appear.

- Paul Hallhan, Dublin, Ireland, October 2025