The Silent Woman by Siobhain Moriarty

Paintings by Siobhain Moriarty For Sale

  • Title: The Silent Woman

  • Artist: Siobhain Moriarty

  • Category: Paintings

  • Medium: Oil on Canvas

  • Size (inches): 8x12

  • Year: 2022

  • Framed?: Framed

  • Shipping from: Ireland

Price: $2100.00

Artwork description

Oil On Canvas 2022
Signed: M 2022 (left Corner)

This painting doesn’t just carry emotion — it invites interrogation. A woman scrubs a pool of blood from the floor in silence, her face to the ground. Her body speaks of exhaustion, resignation. Behind her, an angel offers a bottle of disinfectant — an act of sympathy, but also helplessness.

To the right, a pig is roasting over a fire pit, grotesquely split — a possible symbol of the man in her life, of violence, of consumption. The door at the edge of the frame opens into blackness. Escape? Or simply another unknown?

There is no catharsis here. Just questions.
What happened in this room?
What does the pig stand for?
Why is the woman silent?
Why is suffering made to vanish so cleanly?

A quiet, searing portrait of domestic entrapment. Of pain hidden in plain sight.

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