FROM CELTIC LAND TO SOUTH ASIA recounts the artist Padrig Morin's journey from
his native Brittany to Sri Lanka passing by India and the Middle East. Padrig
attempts to express through Celtic, Hindu and Middle Eastern designs, the
different influences that imprinted on his mind along this journey in a colorful
flat art and naive style.
Through this journey, Padrig felt a growing and relentless sense of anxiety
generated by political, social and economic instability spreading along his path.
Padrig toyed with the idea of a more political and social expression in his work.
Nevertheless, the urge to share a feeling of quietness and peace took the upper
hand and so the desire to translate a sense of humanity as well as an attempt to
connect to a more spiritual dimension.
Padrig hopes he managed some of this with this exhibition through his designs,
colors, symmetry, religious and cultural symbolism as well as the constant use
of animal and floral patterns
