When We Believe

When We Believe
25 Oct – 29 Nov 2025

The title reflects a space where memory, imagination, and perception intersect, with places, objects, and motifs seen anew.

Yoko Akino’s prints balance vivid colour with patterned line, encompassing interiors, cats, seascapes, and symbolic motifs.  The poignancy of titles such as When you believe, there it is, and An Bradán Fease point to moments of awareness and transformation. Pattern, rhythm, and subtle shifts of tone structure her compositions, drawing attention to the interplay between form and space to create a sense of reflection and wonder.  The work carries an interest in perception, impermanence, and insight through attention. 

Vaida Varnagienė’s prints are often punctuated with brilliant colour, to explore the tension between home, displacement, and the in-between. In works such as Forest House, Pink House, and In Between, she traces architecture and landscape, real and imagined, with measured lines and layered colour. Her imagery registers memory as much as place, capturing the subtle pull of leaving, returning, and inhabiting spaces suspended between reality, recollection, and the imagined.

Through etching, aquatint, drypoint, carborundum, and other intaglio techniques, the artists artists give shape to a space where perception, memory, and imagination meet, inviting viewers to linger, reflect, and inhabit moments that evoke emotion and story.

About the Artists

Yoko Akino was born in Kyoto and lives in Dublin. Trained in Kyoto and Dublin, she works in etching and aquatint, and has exhibited widely in Ireland, Japan, and internationally.

Vaida Varnagienė is Lithuanian-born and has lived in Dublin since 2007. She works in intaglio and Japanese mokuhanga, creating multilayered prints held in private and public collections.