Painter appreciates fish leather
10/07/2013
Mr Orr, from Ballymoney, completed a series of paintings called The Screaming Silence for an arts festival called the Cultural Olympiad Unlimited, for which artists were invited to put together works that would appeal to people with and without disabilities.
Paintings in The Screaming Silence combine oils and fish leather, with viewers encouraged to touch the works. In preparation for the work, Maurice Orr visited Iceland to source fish leather from Atlantic Leather.
Atlantic Leather said recently that the texture of fish leather appealed greatly to the painter.
In his comments on the subject, Maurice Orr has said: “Cod skin has scales that overlap in one direction only, giving the feel of looser rocks in a bumpy scree slope.” He also used wolffish skins in the collection, contrasting its smoothness with the roughness of cod leather.
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