About Me

   

     Lia O’Riordan is an Irish painter and digital artist currently attending Loyola University Maryland. Her work presents surrealism and baroque styling, melding and interacting with science and spirituality. Religion and science pose an interesting, conversation-starting contrast that presents questions about the future of humanity, technology killing the old “happy and simple” ways of living, and care for the environment around us. In the past I have focused on the uncomfortable aspects of religion with abstraction but my current project is contrasting religion and science in a more positive or neutral lighting. I address my own experiences with both science and religion but I also try to incorporate the experiences of others through conversation and research. The destruction of the environment for the advancement of technology and society is an age-old question that environmental philosophers and theologians, who consider the environment sacred, ponder and I want to incorporate that question into my paintings.