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The Sean Nós & The Sea

€275.00 – €475.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
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Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with info about delivery, care of your print and framing guidance. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page.
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The Outliers

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. All sizes quoted are image size, add 10cm to width and height for paper size. For example 52cm x 52cm image size = 62cm x 62cm paper size. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
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Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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The Gift of Art: E-Learning Painting Course
E Learning Art Experience
Give the gift of art this Christmas to yourself or someone who has always wanted to learn to Paint! My much in demand and super successful Abstracting the Landscape Painting Workshop is now available for the first time as an online e-course. Taught in 4 modules (which you can study at your own pace, any time from any where!), this Click & Play E-course brings together the very best lessons from many years of painting and teaching experience. Abstracting the Landscape is suitable for absolute beginners but also those with a little or a lot of experience. It teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to use a variety of tools and mediums and to approach painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style.
What is included:
What is included:

Exclusive ‘Behind the Scenes’ footage of my own process.

An extensive video library of recorded support classes such as photo-transfer technique, collage, glazing and texture.

Comprehensive reading and resource list of books, audio and video learning materials.

Downloadable Cheat-Sheets with top tips on how to start, edit and complete your own paintings

Slide Show on specific areas of Art, Artists & their techniques and my sphere of influence.

Life-time access to all learning resources

Who is it for: Open to absolute beginners and those with a little or a lot of painting experience (in any medium!).
Self Learning Abstracting The Landscape
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On The Way Home

€2,240.00

Oil on canvas 90cm x 60cm In slip frame ready to hang I’m not good at remembering road no’s or indeed mountains names so I fondly refer to the mountains midway between my parents home and mine as – The In-betweeners! This painting was completed on a Monday morning following a lovely weekend at my folks. I had been a little ‘stuck’ with the painting but when driving home, across the country from my parents’ house the evening before, the answer was literally staring me in the face. A golden orb, the most glorious sunset guided me home. It’s more literal than my usual work but I liked it, so I’ve left it!
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Kismet In Kerry

€895.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame ready to hang It seems a long time ago now, but there was a period when I lived overseas for 15 years. I feel so entrenched in Ireland now – like on a molecular level – I can scarcely fathom all that time apart. Kerry was absolutely fundamental in re-enchanting my connection with home. Feeling utterly ‘at home’ in Ireland has been possibly my greatest delight in life and stems from time spent in Kerry when I first returned. My first residencies were at Cill Rialaig in Ciarraí – I spent much of my first years back in Ireland painting there. It has underpinned my work as an artist and provided a spectacular canvas upon which my life and love of this land has unfolded. I have felt utterly guided every step of the way – there is MASSIVE magic there – a particular kind of Kerry Kismet.
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After Nephin

€895.00

Oil on canvas 46cm x 36cm In slip frame ready to hang Memory plays a huge part in my work. Recalling time and place sensations in all its subjectivity is very much part of the push-pull and play of reconstructing memories. After Nephin was painted following my recent fishing trip with my Dad – it was a glorious time in a wonderful place. Unforgettable really. Yet when I come to paint it – I think mostly of sensations. Weather rolling in, the boat setting off from the shore and rolling out across the lapping lake. The mountains are there - and the moody sky and water - but I think what I am trying to capture is that precious time which feels like water in our hands.
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My Home On The Lakes

€895.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame ready to hang I'm recently returned from a fishing trip with my Dad and our lovely friend John on Lough Mask. While I feel very at home in Partry – the very special village (populated by extra special people) where my Dad has visited annually for fishing for over 50 years. There is something about the stillness and perpetual motion of being in the boat, on the lake – a particular sensation of time and space that can only be explained as my home on the lake.
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Island Home

€525.00

Oil on board 25cm x 20cm In slip frame ready to hang Over the years, I have always felt comfortable living on islands – which is no surprise given our Island home. Reading Tim Winton’s book of the same title brought home (ha!) to me the pure and tender qualities of island life. It frames our life and gives it context (on same and for context Winton’s Island home is Australia!) Most recently, I found myself on small islands in the middle of Lough Mask while fishing with my Dad. At ‘lunchtime’ we moor at one of the small islands - the sounds of the shore lapping, bird life, oars on water, reels spinning and yarns being spun by fishermen is a lovely backdrop to memories of that place and time. It is a place I feel very inspired by and at home.
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The Magic Mountain

€595.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 30cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €595.00
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Moon Glow

€595.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 30cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €595.00
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Whispering Angels

€795.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €795.00
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(Nothing But) Love

€795.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €795.00
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Turquoise Flamingo (from Hymns to the Silence)

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
Print & Shipping Details
Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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Trawling, Lough Mask

€275.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
Print & Shipping Details
Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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The Lucid (After Conor Walsh)

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
Print & Shipping Details
Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on 308gsm PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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Chugam

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture with a 5cm white border on all sides. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
Print & Shipping Details
Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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A Beautiful Collision

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
Print & Shipping Details
Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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Anam Cara -Crossing the Castle Estuary with Anne at dusk

€845.00

Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €845.00
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Pure Shores

€525.00

Oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €525.00
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The Estuary

€525.00

Oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €525.00
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Tá’n T’ádh Liom (Lucky is Me)

€845.00

Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €845.00
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Redemption: Out of the Blue

€795.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €795.00
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After the Rain

€795.00

Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €795.00
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Le breacadh an Lae, Ciarrai (At the Dawn of the Day, Kerry)

€595.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 30cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €595.00
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A Beautiful Collision (You & I)

€845.00

Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €845.00
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Skellig Soul

€495.00

Oil on canvas 20cm x 20cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €495.00
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Chugham

€1,250.00

Oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €1250.00 'Chugam' is from the Irish 'Cuig' - to come - Chugam is 'to me'. At times when I feel as though I'm 'standing in a gap' in life, 'Chugam' feels like a mantra, an invocation. Willing myself forward. I feel that when standing on the shoreline, facing forward, in to and harnessing the power and energy of a frightening (yet possibly fabulous!) future.
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Starting Over

€745.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00

During my final year in secondary school, I had, for a brief period of time, a substitute English teacher. I remember this woman for many reasons but principally because of here peculiar analogies. She told us we should always remember that a good story was like a fish with its tail in its mouth!

In the decades that has swooshed past since I left school, I have forgotten a LOT but I could never shake that analogy! And so here I am at the end of one collection facing towards the next one. Starting Over feels like a culmination but also a beginning of the shape of things to come in my future work, beyond the precipice.
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There will be time

€1,250.00

Oil on canvas 50cm x 70cm In slip frame, ready to hang. Inhabitants of Spike Island - whether monks or prisoners - must have had a particular relationship with time. The Covid Lockdown time, and spending so much of it in isolation gave us all pause to reflect on time and how we spend it. When you start to think of time as a man made construct - it can get quite loose or dense. Eitherway, during the quiet time I had time to be in nature and to think of all the things I would do post-lockdown. First up was to see and be in the sea - There will be Time - is a tribute to looking forward, even when things are sticky and having fate that there is time - and good times - before us!
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Dark Sky Island

€2,250.00

Oil on canvas (SOLD) 94cm x 69cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €2250.00 Inspired by the imagined longings of historical inhabitants of Spike Island. The tranquility and beauty of their setting, with the far shore still in site, must have been jarring to say the least. A constant taunt for liberty denied and life going on at pace just beyond them. For all the beauty of our surroundings, having peace in our hearts and minds is the prize.
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Estuaries of the Mind

€745.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. When painting in response to Spike Island, I thought often (almost obsessively) about how it must have felt to be captive - as opposed to captivated on / by the island. Inhabitants - be they monks or prisoners - must have looked at the sea and the far shore - with longing. I imagine imprisonment is difficult at any time but to have civilian life literally in your sites must have been extra challenging. I imagine their proximity to the shoreline, gave island inhabitants endless estuaries in to which their minds could wander - satisfying and nourishing their longing for liberty and home.
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The Lucid (after Conor Walsh)

€745.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00 While making 'The Idea of an Island', I became familiar with the work of late Mayo musician Conor Walsh. His work is splendid. Sadly his album The Lucid was only released post-humorously - following Conor's sudden death. I listened to The Lucid a lot while making this collection and called this painting after Conor to some how honor his contribution. The Irish Times review described the album as "a victory for his music and a partial triumph over death itself". I'd strongly recommend a listen to it HERE. I have included the track on a Spotify playlist of music I listened to while making this collection in solitude. You can hear the full playlist HERE.
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A Dweller on the Threshold

€745.00

Oil on canvas 36cm x 47cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00 The Covid quiet time was an interesting time to be painting about Spike Island. Pausing our own lives and regular routines gave rise to questions about why we do what we do and how we are spending our time / lives. It felt often, as if we were all sent to our rooms to examine our collective conscience! After the initial terror, I - and almost everyone I know - was grateful for the silence but that relief soon became a resolve to do things better when we were back to 'normal'. In many ways it felt as if I was primed to restart - almost evangelical - as inhabitants of Spike Island must have felt upon their re-emergence to civilisation - as if A Dweller on the Threshold -'tis ALL before us.
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Sea Through Blue

€745.00

Oil on canvas 36cm x 47cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00 One the first things I did post-lockdown (V1.0) was to got to the sea and swim. I had missed the sea and a full body immersion (while baltic!) was invigorating and restorative. I am a fair-weather swimmer but have a notion of a dry robe, flask and those flipper-bootie-thingies - I love the communion of it and the connection to both the elements and ones own innate vitality. Even if I don't always brave beyond the shore, everything is significantly better when I Sea through Blue!
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Caribbean Blue in Ciarraí

€2,550.00

Oil on canvas 40" x 30" (i.e. 102cm x 76cm) Ready to hang in slip frame The sea adjoining Ciarraí can often catch colours of the tropics - turquoise and fizzy greens that don't quite match our inky skies. I have been greatly infleunced by Sorolla this past year - visiting his studio in Madrid and seeing his shows in London and Dublin. I wonder how he might have painted our sea - with all the drama but not so much sun, I imagine the Spaniard may have had much to say in paint.
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Begin Again, Daybreak over DownPatrick

€1,295.00

Oil on canvas 76cm x 51cm Ready to hang in slip frame Mayo has some magic places, DownPatrick Head being a case in point. It's the edge of Ireland and not for the faint-hearted. The sea lashes it for much of the time - making for dramatic sea spray and the foamiest, thundering current but then at other times it is all calm - like at day break when the sun steals its way in silence into the sky. The stormy times are not forgotten, but behind us now as we begin again.
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In search of Avalon

€295.00

Oil on canvas 25cm x 25cm Ready to hang in slip frame Sometimes the littlest paintings have more than their fair share of magic. This one was painted in about 50 layers and I was just about to give up when it presented itself, like a secret kingdom - just beyond our imagination.
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They say that here the veil is thin

€645.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm Ready to hang in slip frame There is a moody, broodiness to the Mayo landscape - sometimes one can feel almost between worlds. I have heard it said 'the veil is thin' there - as if our ancestors are close by. I take this to be a comfort, and maybe a guiding hand that leads me and my work onwards.
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Breathworks, Ballycastle

€645.00

Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm Ready to hang in slip frame While on a fellowship at The Ballinglen Arts Foundation at the beginning of this year, I used to walk the shoreline at sunset. Most usually I was alone on the beach with my thoughts and it was a lovely opportunity to exercise my mind and body. It occurred to me late on one of those evenings how the sea is so soothing - inhaling and exhaling in a rhythm as it does. Funny to get to my age before realising how the sea shows us how to breathe.
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Under the Harpoon Moon

€645.00

Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm Ready to hang in slip frame I was lucky to spend many of my childhood Summers in Wexford. This past Summer I spent a lovely week in Rosslare and was delighted to note the magic is still as magnificent when walking at low tide on moon lit nights.
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Level 2: 3 Day Follow On Workshop, Cork, Date TBC

€545.00
DATE: TBC| Cork
**Please note: Bookings on first come, first served basis.** My Level 2 Workshops have been created to help my students nurture and further develop their own painting practice while exploring oil paints and cold wax medium. The aim of these intense 3-day sessions is to help you delve into your area(s) of curiosity, hone your skills and deepen your painting practice to ultimately develop your own unique painting collection. Who is it for: Designed with the end-user in mind, this 'Master' Class follows on from my Level 1 Workshops, affording each student ample and specific 1-2-1 tutorage to address and resolve any challenges they are experiencing with their work. The emphasis is on distilling the essence of your work and developing your unique painting 'language'. This workshop has already proven to be a 'game changer' for many - with several participants going on to have their own exhibitions with great success. As per all workshops, you will laugh a lot and get a little (or a lot) messy! You will also take home completed paintings, a reinvigorated painting practice, a whole new skill set (oils and cold wax!), oodles of ideas to take forward and a clear plan for completing your own body of work. What's included:

3 days of intense painting tuition to help you develop your own painting style with a view to creating your own collection

All materials including acrylics, oils, cold wax, mixed media and solvents (bring your own canvas to this session).

Guided demo's developed in response to your requirements

Lots of 1-2-1 tuition and support structured to your specific needs

Plenty of learning resources including an extensive library

A great, yum, nutritious lunch every day

Unlimited refreshments and snacks

Structured Follow-On notes filled with resources on everything you will need to complete your first painting collection.
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Leaving London, Low Tide

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture. Note: Frame in image is for illustrative purposes and is not included
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Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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Mexican Odyssey

€4,950.00

Mixed media 120cm x 100cm
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Soft Day, Lough Mask

€375.00

'Soft Day, Lough Mask' is a pet painting of mine, small in stature, it speaks volumes about 'My' Mayo - a misty place, often inclined to rain. It took me a while to know the place, but once it got hold of me, it was inside me forever. It takes me all 5 senses to paint Lough Mask - it is heart work too, bound up in memory and tradition. There is no other way to paint, really. And even when trying to paint from a boat or from the Lough Shore in the squalliest of weather, I realise in Mayo they are all soft days. Oil on canvas 15cm x 20cm in floated frame
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The Swell, Lough Carra

€275.00 – €695.00

NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, add 10cm to width and height for paper size. (inc white border)
Print Specifications:
All prints are made with pigment inks on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora Numbered limited edition of 250 Both paper and pigment are the industry’s very highest standard Outstanding archival quality guaranteed to last a lifetime or (2!). Laboratory tests certify up to 200 years before any deterioration is noted Print has a smooth, matt surface texture.
Print & Shipping Details
Limited Edition Prints EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! Please be assured my limited edition prints are of the highest standard. I have carried out extensive research to ensure consistent quality and authentic reproduction of my work. It was worth the effort – I am now 100% confident I am working with the best photographer and printer in the country – I am thrilled with the results! Having previously been a ‘print cynic’, I am astounded at the quality of these reproductions. Because they are printed on 100% cotton rag – they look and feel like originals! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. PRINT SPECIFICATIONS: All prints are made with archival pigment on PermaJet Portrait RAG 285gsm. The Paper has a smooth, matt surface texture that guarantees archival standard (longevity 80 -200 years before any deterioration in noted). This is the industry’s highest standard and the results speak for themselves. Each print has a white inch border. AUTHENTICATION & EDITION: All prints are titled, signed and numbered by Cora (in the white inch border). Unless otherwise stated, all prints are in editions of 250. SHIPPING: All prints are packed with great care before being dispatched in robust cardboard tubes. SHIPPING COSTS ARE: €15.00 in Ireland, €20.00 to the UK and €25.00 to anywhere else in the world. All prints are shipped unframed. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference. DISPATCH AND DELIVERY: Turnaround time for prints is 5-10 working days from receipt of your order. Once your artwork has been dispatched, you will receive an email with tracking information. CUSTOM PRINTS: If you have a specific print request, please send a message via the form on the Contact page. RETURNS AND REFUNDS: As with all my original paintings, I offer a 100% refund on all prints if you are not completely satisfied. Return shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. When your print arrives you should take it directly to your framer and ask for it to be framed behind glass with or without a mount according to your preference.
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On the Road to Cill Rialaig

€4,950.00

This large piece captures my 'love at first sight' impressions of the Kerry Bogs. It was painted in-situ in the middle of the bog at Emloughmore. I painted it in a tee-shirt on a bright January day – my birthday – it was my first BIG painting and truly felt like a gift. Mixed media on canvas 148cm X 104cm
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The No Brainer – Unframed

€240.00

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Tidal Sensations

€1,295.00

Oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm In slip frame ready to hang
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Sea Change

€895.00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm In slip frame ready to hang Sometimes we feel 'all at sea' and sometimes it's time for a sea change and then other times - most times - it seems that we are on the other side of change. I believe in, and love perpetual motion. So it's no surprise that this is one of my favourite poems and I think it goes some way to capturing the tone of this painting.
Oceans
by Juan Ramon Jimenez
I have a feeling that my boat

has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing...Silence...Waves...--Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
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(Tis) All Before Us

‘Tis (All before us)'

Oil on Canvas,

180cm x 120cm

‘Tis – the west of Ireland abbreviation of ‘it is’ is a term I love to hear. The softness of it fills me with affection.

‘Tis was also the title of Frank McCourt’s second memoir. Following on from his best-selling ‘Angela’s Ashes’which portrayed the bleakness of Ireland in the earlier half of the last century.

While we still enjoy significant rain fall, Ireland of today is vibrant. In spite of challenges economic and social, we are as a people – I feel, forward looking. And our landscape is abundant – it holds and inspires us all.

‘Tis’– this painting, is about looking forward. It was made in many, many layers and gave its own set of challenges. When composing a painting, I am not looking for likeness but sensation – the feeling of coming home or being home. Place is important but not in a geo map specific way. I am creating sense of place.

Just as happiness is never truly a thing but more a feeling. I am endeavouring to evoke that feeling when you round the Irish coastline and the views, as Seamus Heaney so beautifully set the scene in his poem Postscript “.. catch the heart off guard and blow it open”.
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Threshold

Threshold
Oil On Canvas: 150cm sq €9,250.00 In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
‘Threshold’ marked the beginning of so much newness for me.

After years (and years!) of treading water and often struggling to keep afloat, my painting practice and by association my life, suddenly and almost imperceptibly hit a growth spurt.

Making my largest paintings coincided with finally finding a building that would be my home and house my studio and showroom. Built pre-1900, ‘Threshold’ was created as part of an exhibition to honour the space and all that had gone before and was yet to be.

Poet and philosopher John O’Donoghue wrote beautifully of change and emergence. I loved his notion to ‘ bless the space between us’ as I felt it marked that special time between the past and the future.

“The rhythm of emergence is a gradual slow beat always inching its way forward; change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival”

I have realised life is never linear and change is as constant as the tide. Even in trying times, we must believe in perpetual motion.

Forward is always a direction. Our evolution is illuminated by blessings and possibility, but you must believe in possibility (often things you can’t yet see, but can just about feel!).
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A Turn For Grace

€9,650.00
A Turn For Grace

I read a headline many years ago titled ‘A stage for the performance of heaven’. The article* discussed how the Calder Valley had been poet Ted Hughes ‘tuning fork’. I loved the notion of inspiration as a wide open plain. It seemed boundless, yet active. I have the article pinned above my desk – it feels like a talisman, a reminder to stay in my lane, plough on and stretch out into infinite possibilities. It seems the sea is both my ‘stage’ and ‘tuning fork’. it is the place I draw inspiration and it is a deep well. Making this painting was long and challenging. Made in fifty-plus layers of heavy oils, it was my largest sea painting to date, and the process, while (comma) often filled with joy, was at times tumultuous. Hughes referred to Scout Rock (the view from his childhood home) as ‘"my spiritual midwife at the time, and my godfather ever since". It is the perfect summation of my relations with the sea – a place of possibility and renewal. I am guided by it. This painting being a case in point. When the going got tough, a little too challenging, a gap seemed to appear in a wave and guide me on to grace. Oil On Canvas: 152cm x 152cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
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‘In West Clare’ (We are Eternal)

'In West Clare' (We are Eternal)

In my life, I have only toured through Clare twice – once on a teaching assignment at the wonderful Burren School of Art, it was high Spring and wild flowers were a wonder as was the Nivea blue sea. We were blessed with great weather and lovely dips after class. My second visit was during a terrifically stormy season (July!). Puttering around the County Clare coastline after an absence of many years was restorative in all the right ways. We were awash with elements. Incessant rain kept us grounded – but even so, the beauty of the place was undeniable. Sometimes in places like that, on days like that - the ones that take your breath away – I wonder at how I might have missed it – been rained off etc and never known its colour, shapes and texture in that season. The storm added starkness to the landscape, giving more grist to the black of the Burren and a cobalt green to the tide turning on a cliff. And so much frothy white in the sea. I can recall the colours of both excursions with ease. The scenes are still in my senses, I think those moments – the magic ones – are like tattoos on our minds. Eternal in that moment, as are we. Oil On Canvas: 100cm x 80cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
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From Valentia (Above Us Only Sky)

'From Valentia' (Above us only Sky)

I have, for many year, loved to paint on Bolus Head, so much so that I neglected Valentia island for far too long. A break away to Bray Head on a bracing day, or otherwise, is always worth the climb and was fine food for the stew of this painters pot. The view to the Skelligs is spectacular. It seems to me the weather sometimes falls away into the sea. As if it sort of changes its mind half way across from the mainland, somehow getting distracted on its way, the elements causing light to land in the sea. The colours changing in accordance with light and heat, filling the spectrum. From the viewing point it makes for a great stage show, mist, fog and clouds all in the mix of atmospheric textures giving a heavenly vibe. There is so much sky, God can’t be far away Oil On Canvas: 180cm x 120cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
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Swansong, Mayo Lakes

€9,950.00

Swansong

My Dad Mick has fished the Mayo Lakes – Lough Mask & Lough Carra every May in tandem with the emergence of the May Fly. Some years more prolifically than others but it is always a place of joy for him. By proxy, genes or otherwise, his joy has become mine and I love to join him on these expeditions which then seep into my own work. Before Covid we celebrated his 50th year fishing in his home from home, Partry – the lovely village nestled between both lakes. We had a hooley - a wonderful celebration of time well spent amongst great lifelong friends. Then nothing! The Covid pause put paid to that particular pleasure and we had to wait it out for years. My Dad had back surgery and was slower on his pins but his lovely essence and energy was buoyed by fast horses and slow golf. It was glorious to finally return to Lough Mask. I doubted my Dad would be robust enough for long lake days. It was an illumination to see the vitality of place, people and nature infuse him. It energized him entirely. He was ginger-ish boarding the boat the first day but jumping off by the end of the week, exuberant! Doing what you love really, truly is a lifeforce and nature is magic Oil On Canvas: 160cm x 160cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
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Flume

Flume

‘Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working’ so said Picasso. I agree – turning up is everything, yet inspiration turns up in many places. Often the oddest of places. For me, Ideas often solidify when walking or in the shower, And always, always in music. The title for this painting ‘Flume’ came to me organically. While I was painting, the world rolled around my mind – it seemed a hybrid somehow of Flow or Float and Moon. On inspection the definition was of ‘an artificial channel conveying water’ or ‘ a winding tubular water slide or chute at a swimming pool’. Both definitions gave ballast to the sensations of rolling water and a light, playfulness at the edge of a body of water. Beyond the shallows, I remembered the Peter Gabriel song ‘Flume’– it petered up from the recesses of memory. The lyrics, “I move in water, shore to shore, Nothing's more. Only love is all maroon, Lapping lakes like leary loons’ affirmed the sensations I am trying to capture – the feeling of being ‘all in’ when in water (or life, or love!). Being entirely in your body, in your own nature but also weightless – feeling in flow, sort of floating. That particular pleasurable illumination - the lightness of being. Oil On Canvas: 125cm x 112cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
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Nocturne

€9,250.00

Nocturne
Inspired by time fishing with my father on the Mayo Lakes, Nocturne is evocative of days ending and that very special light particular to the low sun on the lakes. I am a fair weather fisher but time on the lake with my Dad is nothing short of glorious. It is time out of time. Even though senses are accelerated with the cut and thrust of the boat traversing the waves, sideways rain and all the slip-slop sounds of water, reels and bird life – time feels somehow suspended. The experience is utterly elemental and yet really, very restful but stimulating. Beyond the shoreline, out on that horizon there is a promise of magic and reward. Great days - time well spent – the best currency – before the waves roll us back to shore and home. Oil On Canvas: 150cm x 150cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang
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Wonderland

'Wonderland'
Oil On Canvas: 160cm x 160cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang To be full of future – dreams, plans, schemes and such – is a lovely, latent kind of energy. That’s how I felt when making this painting. As a rookie artist I painted in a traditional context – working out in the landscape, making paintings in response to place. As my practice deepened, the response has become more intuitive. I’ve learned to trust myself and the work, and to understand (to paraphrase the late, great Mary Oliver) ‘My work is loving the world…, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished’. Composition has taken on a more vital, vibrant quality – rather than thinking in terms of foreground, lines, proportions etc, making paintings now feels like composing music. It is beyond looking and seeing and involves a sort of deep cellular listening – to hear, but mostly feel the rhythm of nature. My paintings are made with oils in many layers. Creating this big painting was a joy. Pregnant with possibility, it was in and of itself a wonderland. With every layer it seemed to unfold, evolve and reveal itself to me. Often painting feels like magic - a particular kind of alchemy. It fills me with wonder and a special energy – an illumination radiating from the inside out.
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Begin To Hope

€8,750.00

Oil on canvas 180cm x 120cm In slip frame ready to hang These larger paintings have been stirring inside me for the past few years. It has been a pleasure to see them finally come to fruition in the studio. I am forever saying my work is ‘holding on and letting go’ . There may be more robust, verbose words for my process but the practice of turning up, letting go of all my notions and hang ups and holding on for inspiration, flow and the good stuff (that feels to my mind like fire) is essentially how I find and harness inspiration. Begin to Hope feels like a line I am making by walking, beyond the fertile void, it is of itself spilling out into the world at large
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Lands Edge

€3,950.00

Oil on canvas 140cm x 74cm In slip frame ready to hang This painting typifies much of the push and pull at play in my work and could equally be called ‘Holding On & Letting Go’. It was painted over the course of a year in many layers – this painting and I had something of a long loose dance before we capitulated towards each other. Lands Edge is to my mind about standing your ground – staying within the magic limitlessness of imagination – and not getting sucked into the nonsensical void. Out beyond the churning chaos there is magic. You don’t always have to see it – but you must always believe in it, for as Roald Dahl said ‘only those who believe in magic will find it’.
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Sail On Silver Moon

€2,240.00

Oil on canvas 90cm x 60cm In slip frame ready to hang I’m honestly not sure if this is a sun-rise or sunset - and surely one becomes another on this magical orb of ours. I took the title from ‘Sail On’ the gorgeous song by Interference. I listened to it a lot recently around the time of Maurice Desmond’s death. Maurice was a wonderful Cork painter, a true contemporary landscape painter. He was one of the first artists I met when I came to Cork. He was entirely himself and always lovely, kind and encouraging to me. His legacy is long, his work speaks for itself. I think he might live forever. I will never forget him
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In A World Without End

€1,295.00

Oil on canvas 56cm x 51cm In slip frame ready to hang My mind gets a bit blown when I think about how the opposite end of the shoreline I am standing in, is washing someone else’s feet on the other side of the world. It is entirely mind-blowing but also enormously reassuring – as if to affirm that everything that lives is connected. The cyclical nature of tides, sun rise – sun set, seasons and the rhythms of our own biology all pre-date time itself and point to an innate knowingness and our ability to be harmonious – in sync – or at the very least community minded!.
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The Fertile Void

€1,495.00

Oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm In slip frame ready to hangI had the most enchanting conversation with someone recently about the strength of stillness and the power of darkness. In long Summer days, darkness (metaphorical and physical) feels less compelling, but my friend spoke of how germination requires darkness in order to cast deep roots into firm soil. The silent shoreline of this painting seemed to me a place to pause and enjoy the inherent (restorative) stillness we all have capacity for – when we shelve all the shizzle. I love to think there is a fertile void in all of us.
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The Tender Places

€925.00

Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm In slip frame ready to hang There is a softness to this painting that belies its layers. Oftentimes those paintings that seem most resolved, take the longest to make. It is not unlike life. I find, as most people do – when I am a bit stirred up or bothered by something a walk on the beach is the cure. The expanse of space, salt between my toes, the spray of salt water on my feet and the rhythmic breath of the tide puts whatever is bothering me into proportion. It's as if a type of tidal tenderness puts a balm on my tender places.
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The Smithy Of My Soul

€595.00

Oil on board 30cm x 25cm In slip frame ready to hang
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Infinite Possibliities, Summer Solstice

€595.00

Oil on board 30cm x 25cm In slip frame ready to hang Inspired by my recent solstice swim, It was the most beautiful evening on Garretstown strand. The sun cast the most glorious, long shadow but there were very few folks on the beach and scarcely anyone in the sea. Having the sea to myself was intensely pleasurable. Invigorating, it felt like washing off a season – I thought of Van Morrison’s ‘To be Born again’ – and understood the immersion to be a special baptism of sorts. I slept so well that night – dreaming I was cocooned in the arc of a wave.

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