Lídia Inoma

I am a painter with a background in psychotherapy. My practice is a partnership between painting, writing, and exploring the interconnectedness of humans and nature, with drawing at its foundation.

I am interested in drawing inner-world projections and exploring difficult topics through play. Process and awareness are central to my work. This was further developed during the Drawing and Visual Investigation course at NCAD, with its focus on investigation, exploration, and experimentation. This approach influences my choice of materials; I select mediums that best reflect what the drawing seeks to convey. As a result, I work across varied materials including oils, acrylic, charcoal, pencil, ink, watercolour, pastel, gouache, print, and collage.

These pieces are selected from a larger body of work in which I used a bouquet of dried flowers as a conduit for processing and drawing my inner and outer world projections. The process involved visually zooming in and out of the flowers, capturing details and textures while engaging with their abstractions.

I sat with the bouquet of flowers as I would with a client in the room: with presence and curiosity towards its inner world. The drawings emerge not only from what is presented in the room, but also from an attempt to capture both real and abstract elements and integrate them into new forms.

Within this project, I explored loss, love, and identity. While love and loss are processed through drawing floral internal projections evoked by sitting with dried flowers, identity is explored through the play of floral abstraction, detail, and thinking beyond what one sees as representative of a subject.