About

John Finneran’s paintings have always been personal and abstract, whether or not they also had figures in them. In previous bodies of work, shapes and forms had meanings: the circle was the sun or the moon, the triangle was female anatomy or a pyramid or a mountain, the eyes became a bellybutton, the rectangle an urban structure. The mood was in the colours. Finneran drew a distinction between the personal and the biographical, pivoting his interest towards the emotions and feelings in the paintings, rather than the personal experience behind them. But in current times, he says it feels right …