Art: Paul Doran

Doran has always made challenging, unexpected paintings. Early compositions featured ambitiously thick waves of paint. Since then he has cut into surfaces, layered and chopped, producing works apparently driven by the premise that the job of putting paint on a surface to make art has already been done. Around 2009, this approach began to pose more problems than it solved. There’s none of that difficulty in these new paintings, in which the use of fabric, plastic pockets, nails and staples defies viewers to even categorise what is going on. I Love the Way You Love Me features fluorescent coloured stained pieces of tissue stapled like curtains to a baton of painted wood, with nods to the tradition of Irish landscape painting. Real is an intensely