This is a collection of intricate, attractive drawings in which the single graphite pencil is used to maximum effect. Their visceral compositions highlight Eve’s confident technique, producing exquisite, limited-edition prints on Hahnemuehle paper with archival inks.

Accompanying selected drawings is a short poem, inspired by the work, written by Caoimhín Mac Unfraidh. Some of the poems are so dependent on the corresponding piece that they cannot stand alone and require the artwork to be viewed while the poem is read to be coherent. Some were clearly sparked by the artwork but are not moored to it in the way that is perhaps traditional with ekphrastic poetry. None of the poems would exist were it not for the artworks that drew them out.

“With ‘The Sunbeam’ I have taken the theme of compassion and our place in our environment and pushed it further, presenting accessible, technically skilled artworks which address issues of climate change and our responsibility, the works engage the viewer on intellectual and emotion levels.” Says Eve Parnell of her exhibition in Birr.