For many years, in addition to sketching and painting landscapes, Adrienne Symes has been recording the monuments and follies of Ireland, those enigmatic obelisks, towers and temples that dot the countryside, embodying yearnings for the glories of ancient Greece and Rome, or the hermetic retreats of monastic Ireland. Although traditional in approach, her work has a freshness and spirit that results from a long held prefrence for sketching out of doors.

Travelling widely, she seeks out monuments, houses, gardens and follies, bringing to her subject-matter a sensitive and aeshetic appreciation of the patina of age and the effects of time. her etching and paintings are meditations on the effects of time, and the transience on human vanities.