The Eden Gallery at Cavan County Museum presents artworks by visual artist Marilyn Gaffney.

Marilyn Gaffney holds an MFA from the National College of Art and Design. She is the recipient of the John O’Leary Award in 2010 from Sligo Institute of Technology. She received the D.O. Sullivan Medal Award in 2009 from Sligo IT. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally; her most recent work is currently on display in Naperville, California.

I am interested in our relationship to landscape and how particular places hold memories and can embody emotional responses. A snapshot memory of a place may be recreated through automatic responses with material as a form of remembering. This relationship of memory and landscape brings about an emotional response because the place holds sentiment. The notion of Urban Memory and the loss of certain things within a place when it has been changed features as research within my work. I am interested in the combination of representation and abstraction in painting.