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SUMMARY:The return of wonder | Marijke Jordens and Simon Ratcliffe at Clare
  Museum
DESCRIPTION:Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted
  to present “The return of wonder” by Marijke Jordens and Simon Ratcli
 ffe.\n\nMarijke Jordens is a Belgian artist and singer living in Ennis. Sh
 e studied life drawing in the Fine Art Academy in Ghent and studied Archae
 ology at the University.\nMarijke’s work reflects a balance between bein
 g and doing\, between the intuitive and the craft. In The return of wonder
  Marijke shows her message from within about the dawn of a new way of bein
 g\, rooted in the celebration of joy and wonder.\n\nExhibitions:\n“Trio:
  Flow\, Texture\, Light” with Ronan McMahon and Ingrid Lotter\, Sweeney 
 Memorial Library\, Kilkee – September 2023\;\n“Let the light come in
 ”\, Steele’s Terrace – December 2022\, Scarriff Library – June 202
 4\;\nPortrait Exhibition\, Mountshannon – December 2024\;\nBarna Art Fai
 r – December 2024\;\n“Holding it together” – Solo exhibition\, Swe
 eney Memorial Library\, Kilkee – February 2025\n\nSimon Ratcliffe has co
 ntinued to practice painting and drawing since attending art school in 199
 3\, while working full-time in education. He moved to County Clare 20 year
 s ago\, and from that moment\, the Burren has been his constant artistic c
 ompanion\, providing a rich source of inspiration. These abstract and figu
 rative pen and ink drawings were created in response to the surrealism of 
 the landscape – the weathered stone itself becomes an allegory of time a
 nd spirituality.\n\nWalking the limestone and noticing the music of nature
  has been the pleasure of his life. Perhaps it is only there where his sou
 l feels free to meditate on the mysteries of lie and to experience the uni
 ty of physical and ethereal perception. It is on the ancient seabed of Bur
 ren that the past and the present embrace.\n\nImage attached: The return o
 f wonder featuring:\nShe hears us by Marijke Jordens\nThe land within by S
 imon Ratcliffe
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Munster
LOCATION:Clare Museum\, Arthur's Row\, Ennis\, CLARE\, V95EC92\, Munster\, 
 Ireland
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