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Courthouse Gallery & Studios - Summer Open -  19 June - 12 August 2026      
Trudi van der Elsen,  Yellow Studio, oil on canvas,  50x50cm
_2018


​TRUDI VAN DER ELSEN - ​PORTALS ​ - Curated by Sharon Murphy
PORTALS invites the viewer into a threshold a gateway into another world, a multi-dimensional field where perception expands and the boundaries between the visible and the unseen loosen. Each painting becomes a portal of fiction: a space for projection, meditation, and the gathering of information. 

The process of making these works is itself a kind of crossing. Through repeated gestures, erasures, re-markings, and the slow accumulation of surface, a portal gradually comes into being. The paintings evolve through cycles of emergence and disappearance - spaces growing, contracting, dissolving, and re-forming. Time here is dynamic: it is embedded in the movement of paint, in each trace of revision, and in the perceptual shifts that unfold over the duration of making. 
The works draw on multiple spatial registers: hyperspace and the digital web, natural space and bodily space, atmospheric and cosmic space. As the layers build, the canvas becomes an experimental terrain where these dimensions meet. The strata of marks form an abstract language, a conversation between lines and openings, between interior and exterior worlds, between what is known and what lies beyond recognition.
To make or to view a portal requires courage. It asks for a loosening of perception and an openness to transformation. These paintings trace that journey, the subtle psychic shifts, the emotional thresholds, the moments where one crosses into a wider field of experience and emerges altered. 
Portals may be narrow at first, but once passed through, they release the viewer into unfamiliar expanses: spacious, resonant, and alive with possibility. 
https://www.burrencollege.ie/exhibitions/


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The Craic Beneath the Waves I, II and III, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 160 cm, each.


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Connla’s Well Series, 2022, acrylic on cotton rag paper, 47 x 47 cm, framed ​​

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​Echo  2019  acrylic on canvas 100 x 160 cm

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Connla’s Well Series, 2022, acrylic on cotton rag paper,47x47cm, framed 

Estuary, solo exhibition, June 2023 at Custom House Studios & Gallery, Westport, Co.Mayo


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UFO, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 42x42cm framed  ​

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Continuum Drift, 2021 acrylic on canvas 120 x 180 cm ​​​
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Amorphous Drift, 2021 acrylic on canvas 120 x 180 cm ​
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Drift, 2021 acrylic on canvas 120 x 180 cm ​
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 Adrift , 2021, acrylic on canvas, 120 x180 cm
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4 Drift paintings in  Breaking Borders - Exhibition curated by Valeria Ceregini in GOMA Gallery of Modern Art - Waterford 
https://valeriaceregini.com/2021/12/27/breaking-borders/ - January 2022




​Paintings in Artform Annual 44 Exhibition - Waterford - Dec/Jan 2022
​All artworks are available in the online gallery at
 
www.artform.ie or https://theannual44.viewingrooms.com/

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​Freefall 2021,acrylic on canvas,80x100cm

​in WINTER OPEN /21 at the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon 


​Fragmented Perception 
​curated by Valeria Ceregini  
https://valeriaceregini.com
​part of the trilogy Painting through its poetical emotions #3 at Weber & Weber Galleria, Turin, Italy
http://www.galleriaweber.it 
​14 September - 30 October 2021


​NOTES FROM A DIGITAL SEA - Paintings at  the Gallery I  Burren College of Art​ - 2020
https://www.burrencollege.ie/exhibitions/?exhibitions=past

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XR-Extended Reality, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm - OPW State Art Collection, Ireland
exhibited in 2020 - RHA 190th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
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XR- Series,  mixed media on cotton rag paper, 30 x 30 cm, 2018/2019
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Studio with Toledo Strings and Monkey & Grasshopper 
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STUDIO WITH  'TRANSPARENT LANDSCAPE' & 'SCREEN & UNIVERSE' 
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'AROUND HERE' - Acrylic on canvas - 200 x 135 cm - 2018
PAINTINGS 2013

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RINGFORTS SERIES - oil paintings on canvas - 50 x 50 cm. - OPW Collection - 2013

Ringforts can be found throughout rural Ireland. They are mysterious, of another time. Some may have originated just a few centuries ago, others are truly ancient dating back to prehistoric times. Unless they have been archaeologically excavated – which only a small number have been – then we know very little of these places’ original purpose and use. They are generally small areas of high ground encircled by trees and shrubbery which offer a good vantage point of the surrounding area. They are peaceful places seldom visited by the general public yet, to the spiritually and historically inquisitive, they can evoke feelings of ‘other’ energies, of spiritual significance. Such feelings could be said to represent the artist’s muse.

​'Around Here' 
Series - Oil on Canvas 2012-2015

​'OH-ZONE' 
Series - Oil on Canvas &  Oil on MDF circular - 2004/2005
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