Inga Ryan (Dublin, Ireland) makes oil paintings using brushstrokes and palette knives. Her work is representational and this body of work is about trees. Ryan is a studio painter who works from studies in the landscape together with photo references. While some paintings come together in a matter of days, many take weeks and often she scrapes them down entirely. She prefers using scraped back surfaces which retain remnants of the original colours. When using new canvases she often lays down bright washes that serve to clash with the dominant colour of the work as it is painted. Traces of these washes are visible on close inspection. She enjoys and plays upon contrasting vertical of trees and horizontal land.