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SOLD OUT!I made this painting after spending time in residency on Westport Pier. There was something about the comings and the goings on the pier that seemed determined but ancient in origin. The onland cargo was a mixed bag of folks earnestly aiming to climb The Reek, locals going about their daily lives and visitors - many who were endevouring to retrace the steps of ancestors who had set off from here. The small boats setting out in Clew Bay by contrast, seemed resigned to the winds. Mixed media on canvas 40cm x 40cm in slip frame ready to hang
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SOLD OUT!Oil on Canvas, 120cm x 100cm in slip frame. €3950.00
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SOLD OUT!At dusk on the lake it is as if the veils lifts a smidge and when staring across the lake you could almost be on the threshold of an other world. This eventide enchantment gives off a glow - the gloaming! The stillness then is a time for contemplation and an opportunity to allow our lives to settle somewhat, before beginning again. Oil on Canvas 40cm x 40cm in slip frame ready to hang
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SOLD OUT!Oil on Canvas 40cm x 40cm SOLD This painting is a contemplation of the pull of one place from another. In Mayo, you can’t but be conscious of all the people who left their home there to make lives elsewhere. Poverty and hard times made their mark on the populous and this is – to my mind - imbued in the landscape. A stillness but also a sense of constant unfolding. There is a beauty to it that makes me think again of nature as perpetual motion.
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!Oil on Canvas 50cm x 40cm SOLD ** NOW Available as a Limited Edition Archival Print **
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One of the last paintings from my Mayo Lakes series, 'Memory Onmiscent, Time Intangible' was made during a residency on the shore of Lough Carra. My aim was to document the landscape, the lakes themselves and the indigenous entemology but the work evolved to include an inner landscape, documenting feelings about place, memory, family, the passage of time and how nature can bridge the gap between generations. Oil on Canvas 20cm X 15cm in floated frame
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SOLD OUT!Oil on Canvas 20cm x 20cm SOLD - **Now Available In Limited Edition Print** HERE. From my ‘Land of Plenty’ collection, ‘Across the sea to the Skelligs’ was painted following a residency at Cill Rialaig in Kerry. Situated on Bolus Head – Ireland’s most south-westerly point, the residency is set in a famine village that looks out at the Skelligs – the early Christian monastic islands. The rugged sea seemed to span a mystical journey of centuries and yet I felt connected by instinct and some sort of magic thread to this ancient other world.
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 20cm x 20cm SOLD to The Mayo County Council Collection
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SOLD OUT!Mixed media on board 29cm x 20cm SOLD **Now Available In Limited Edition Print** HERE
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SOLD OUT!Fair Winds & Following Seas Mixed media on canvas 120cm x 100cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!From my ‘Ballads to the Bog’ series, ‘Blanket Bog’ was painted during my first painting residency at Cill Rialaig Artists’ Retreat in Kerry. I went with the intention of painting the sea but was completely overwhelmed by the bogs and spent all my time painting there. It was glorious. I love the abundance of our bogs, their ever-changing colours and the fact they are a living, breathing thing. Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm SOLD **Limited Edition Archival Prints Available**
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SOLD OUT!This painting captures my interpretation of the way rain and mist move across the bogs in Kerry – seemingly unifying to occupy the scene. There are 'soft' days in Kerry, when the rain is a slight drizzle, merely doing it's job of re-hydrating the earth. This was painted on one of those days. Oil on board 29cm x 20cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!'Kerry Gold' goes somewhere to explaining the affection I have for the 'Kingdom'. Time spent there is a gift and on a sunny day it feels as though the beaches are imbued with gold. Oil on board 25cm x 13cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!When I first started painting in Kerry, I was fascinated by the bog and asked some local people where was best to paint the bog. They sent me to “Lough na Rabba .. where the geese go boggin!". I understood why when I got there - it was VERY boggy! And very beautiful. Mixed media on board, 20cm x 15cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!So taken was I with the Kerry landscape in Spring bloom that I felt compelled to incorporate elements of the landscape to the piece. This piece was one of the first of my 'Ballads to the Bog' pieces made in Kerry in homage to the great Writer and Poet Michael Kirby. At the time, I was looking at the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer who incorporates elements into his giant constructions. The gorse was treated and preserved with varnish before being sewn into the painting - I feel it strikes a good balance between the elemental and abstraction. Mixed media on linen 50cm x 40cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!Once you 'aclimatise' there is something quite hynotic about the rain in Kerry. There is a softness to it. In this painting I tried to capture that gentleness. Oil on board 25cm x 15cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!I made this painting while on retreat in Kerry early last January. Being surrounded by sea, Ballinskelligs rarely see's snow, so it was a great pleasure to witness the smallest amount atop the boglands. Mixed media on board 40cm x 25cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!This painting was made in the bog at Emloughmore, just outside Ballinskelligs in Co. Kerry. I love the freedom of painting there, just dropping down in to the scene and trying to capture my impression of the lovely energy in that place. The Golden Cut Away Bog was painted on a sunny January day when it felt as though it was all before us. Oil on board 15cm x 25cm SOLD
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I made this piece over an Easter weekend in my studio. I wasn't entirely sure what I would paint but I had recently returned from a residency in Kerry and the view of the ancient famine village at dusk, with smoke billowing from the little chimneys haunted me and found its way into the work. The famine village is located at Cill Rialaig on Bolus Head, on the last road out of Ireland. The location has been central to much of my work here in Ireland. Residencies here provided an essential time and space to immerse myself in the landscape and it's history - so that I might respond to and develop a sort of language of the land. mixed media on canvas 148cm X 104cm