• Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 100cm x 70cm SOLD Painted in a series of breathy layers, ‘A Second Coming – In Ciarraí’ was made while on residency in Cill Rialaig, in Kerry. It commemorates the life of a friend. My residency was in January when the world seemed slowly to begin again. From high up on Bolus Head during those short, moist days, I wondered how do we distinguish time and mark out days. Indeed, how do we capture the essence of a life – but in breaths. And so this painting was made slowly in lots of very loose layers. I wanted to paint like breath on glass – similar to the way weather, hovering between sea and sky, makes a ghostly impression over The Skelligs. The painting became a sum of it’s parts – lots of light layers which, when combined attempt to capture the essence of light and a life.    

     

  • Oil on canvas 100cm x 70cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 100cm x 70cm SOLD From ‘The Outliers’ collection, which marks ten years painting in Ireland, ‘On Solid Ground’ is a painting that is a reflection on and a distillation of 10 years of residencies and time out painting in Ireland. It was painted in my studio but brings together an amalgam of places that have bolstered, sustained and influenced my painting practice. In his book ‘The Outliers’, Malcolm Gladwell asserts that it takes 10,000 hours practise to master a skill. Some time during the past decade in Ireland, I have crossed over that threshold which has delivered me to this solid ground.  

     

  • Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 30cm x 22cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 20cm x 20cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 120cm x 100cm SOLD   The Outliers is the culmination of 10 years painting here in Ireland. It is from my first studio collection, that is –the first collection I have made from my studio rather than in response to a particular residency. It’s a reflection of 10 years of residencies and time out painting in Ireland, an amalgam of places I’ve painted – and a sort of hybrid of influences. By definition, an outlier is ‘is an observation point that is distant from other observations’. I like to think of the outliers as an outcrop of  mythical islands just beyond my imagination – a sort of painting odyssey – a sort of unreachable destination I am happily propelling myself towards and constantly striving to capture.

     

  • Oil on canvas 20cm x 20cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Oil on canvas 20cm x 20cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

  • Windrush

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    Oil on canvas 46cm x 36cm Ready to hang in slip frame

     

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