‘The return of wonder’, an Art Exhibition by Marijke Jordens and Simon Ratcliffe
Clare Arts Office, in conjunction with Clare Museum, will host ‘The return of wonder’ by Marijke Jordens and Simon Ratcliffe in Clare Museum from August 25 to September 20, 2025.
Marijke Jordens is a Belgian artist and singer living in Ennis. She studied life drawing in the Fine Art Academy in Ghent and studied Archaeology at the University there. Marijke’s work reflects a balance between being 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 being, rooted in the celebration of joy and wonder. Marijke has previously exhibited in Kilkee, Ennis, Scarriff, Mountshannon and Barna.
Since attending art school in 1993, Simon Ratcliffe has continued to practice painting and drawing while working full-time in education. He moved to County Clare 20 years ago, and from that moment, the Burren has been his constant artistic companion, providing a rich source of inspiration. These abstract and figurative pen and ink drawings were created in response to the surrealism of the landscape. The weathered stone itself becomes an allegory of time and spirituality.
Walking the limestone and noticing the music of nature have been the pleasure of his life. Perhaps it is only there where his soul feels free to meditate on the mysteries of life and to experience the unity of physical and ethereal perception. It is on the ancient seabed of Burren that the past and the present embrace.
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