An exhibition of paintings and prints by Dublin based artist, Gerard Cox at the Sirius Arts Centre will run from Friday the 6th until the 29th of August 2010. Cox has worked as an artist in different media for over the last 35 years, from wooden sculpture and drawing to printmaking and painting. His work has always been based on organic forms and this work particularly celebrates life and nature through colour. In his works Gerard attempts to capture the intensity of living, not in a representational way, but rather through the spirit emanating from living things. His paintings are evolved slowly, the layers built up gradually over a number of weeks to a point of frenzied, but controlled activity. These works are a delight to the eye and the experience of painting is exposed here in all its glory as a joyous experience.