Molly van ­Amerongen: ‘This particular painting felt alive, like it had a pulse’

Art: What Lies Beneath

Molly van Amerongen was inspired by Mexico City in 'Tempo'

Niall MacMonagle

Molly van ­Amerongen’s Dutch grandfather “lived in Amsterdam up until the war, then moved to South ­Africa, joined the South African airforce, stayed on to practise medicine there and in Rhodesia, as it was then, which is where my mother grew up”.

And Van Amerongen, whose father is Irish, moved to Ireland when she was four.