Martina Harrigan

Email: harrigan.martina@gmail.com

Phone: +35387 9305 592

I am a local artist from Newbridge. The work I create is inspired by my love of nature and all the different types of textures, forms, and shapes that are seen along our beaches, countryside, and in our Oceans.

 My work is focused on fibre manipulation and the different types of textures that can be achieved by applying heat, stitch, and embellishment which will achieve my final design. I also incorporate a lot of recycled plastics and fabric remnants and any other Item I can recycle and turn into something beautiful.

I love contemporary off beat textile art; therefore, I work on achieving something that combines these ideas in a cleverly skilled way, as an artist I also love to photograph unusual shapes and forms, or details of rust Flowers, Leaves, Tree Bark, Weathered Walls, and Cobwebs, anything that will inspire me to transform natures natural beauty into unique pieces of Textile Art.

My work has been exhibited with the Newbridge Pop Up Art Group many times.

I have received commissions from clients as far away as Japan, America, and France

Title: St. Brigid’s Cross

Medium: Textile & Mixed Media

Size: 30cm x 30cm

Framed

Price: €140

Saint Brigid’s Cross means home to me, it brings back memories of making them with my family and feeling connected to something bigger.

Title: Kilgowan Standing Stone

Medium: Textile & Mixed Media

Size: 30cm x 30cm

Framed

Price: €160


The Kilgowan Standing stone is thought to be one of the lesser known long stones.  Its existence was threatened in the 1980s by gravel quarrying. I wanted to showcase this piece of local history.