{"id":359334,"date":"2026-03-22T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359334\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:08:13","slug":"podcaster-and-artist-jen-odwyer-on-grief-art-the-creep-dive-stop-the-madness-and-rowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359334\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcaster and artist Jen O\u2019Dwyer on grief, art, The Creep Dive, Stop the Madness and rowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Losing her only sibling to cystic fibrosis had a profound effect on Jen O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s life. Here, the podcaster and painter shares her journey with grief, what instigated hit shows \u2018The Creep Dive\u2019 and \u2018Stop The Madness\u2019 and how competitive rowing has inspired her artwork\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist and podcaster Jen O'Dwyer at her home in Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/427bd951-f198-491f-b11f-ae25a965649f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist and podcaster Jen O&#8217;Dwyer at her home in Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThis is me training myself to be still and slow. That\u2019s what I struggle with. I will spin out at top speed. My struggle is always just pullback,\u201d says Jen O\u2019Dwyer, who is talking about both her work as an artist and her rowing \u2013 she is a member of a club in D\u00fan Laoghaire where she rows competitively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cPainting and rowing came at the same time because of timing. You have to row sequentially with your stroke. She sets the time and I have to follow her, so I have to slow f**king down and be present, and then all of that is painting as well. It\u2019s total control. You have to just slow down. I paint horizons and timelines. I paint tides, like ebbs and flows and rhythms. Like music, like a beat. Each of them is almost like, you know, it\u2019s a period of time. That\u2019s what I paint, I just try to paint time,\u201d she says of her artwork, which launched with a solo show last summer for the Murmurations collection. They are big, dramatic, beautiful acrylic pieces on canvas created in her home studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Losing her only sibling to cystic fibrosis had a profound effect on Jen O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s life. Here, the podcaster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,56007,162711],"class_list":["post-359334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liadan-hynes","tag-sophie-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}