Michael Monaghan: Rhythm Forged

Rhythm Forged captures the intense physicality of Michael's painting process, where movement, instinct, and surface collide. Each work feels carved from motion itself—brush and knife working in dialogue, shaping dense layers of oil into living texture. Monaghan’s impasto technique is central to this transformation; thick pigment is pushed, scraped, and coaxed into forms that hold the memory of his gestures. The surfaces breathe with rhythm and resistance, at once raw and refined, revealing the tension between control and abandon. Colour surges and recedes like a pulse, forging visual energy from instinctive action. In these works, painting becomes both a bodily and emotional rhythm—an act of forging rather than depicting. Rhythm Forged invites viewers to feel the charge of creation itself, suspended in the tactile power of paint.