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Big Dreams 2025
Sometimes things don't turn out quite like you thought they would but its only to take us to a better place, a bigger dream.
These paintings are available for sale.
A Holy Show
In Formalities
Fairy Fauxrt 2
Small Town Big Dream
Special Summer 2023
Three special paintings that don't belong in a category.
"Love Grows" was a special commission for a couple that have saved me twice. A big square of light and happiness.
"Romeo's on Fire" was painted for the ArtNetDLR open call for their "Transience" exhibiton - transient forests, news and young love.
"Paradise Regained" is a supersize commission of pure magic. It was lovely to get back to a 'maker' painting - working with wood.
These paintings are all sold.
Love Grows
Romeo's on Fire
Paradise Regained
Flaneuring in France
I spent much of the summer of 2022 in France - a week with Contemporary Irish Art Society in Nice and a month in Paris where I completed the stage intensif "Portrait of a Walk" at the prestigous Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris as part of their Nouvelle Academie Des Amateurs. Finally a student card from an art college.
Then I lost my father. I had no heart or mind to paint for months.
The sketches and studies for these flaneuring walks sat in a folder for the rest of that year.
In the Spring of 2023, the couple for whom "Love Grows" called and I got back to work.
These paintings are available for sale (€500-€600 unframed)
The Tree Family Portraits
This started with a Haiku assignment, struck by the lace like bare branches of a solitary tree standing dark against the sky on a grey day. The lace, the posing grandeur of the tree, I got thinking about classic portraits of great ladies and so it began; The Tree Family Portrait album. The idea of lace is a recurring motif in each painting using textile of actual lace or paper stencilled lace.
drizzling day
black lace of bare branches
drip drip drip
These paintings are almost all sold.
Available; Portrait of a Nude, in sun - €900
Portrait of a Nude - in dark
Portrait of a Nude - in sun
Family, Posing
The Golden Anniversary
Lace Veil, Winter Bride
Playing Hide & Seek
The Living Years
Fabric, wood and acrylic paints combined with all the coarse, gloss and iridescent medium that my heart and hand will allow. This is me throwing the kitchen sink at my love for these landscapes and the life they have provided me. No holding back, no fear of rejection, of appearing foolish or being judged. We might as well put our whole hearts out there and see what happens because some day it will be too late.
"crumpled bits of paper, filled with imperfect thought, stilted conversations, I'm afraid that's all we've got", the words of the Mike Rutherford 80's classic that inspired the name for the series.
These paintings are all sold.
A Single Thread of Memories
There here was once a single board, a single piece of thread and two letters of favourite memories, one to each of my parents. There are now eight Memory Paintings bound by the single thread in a continuous line through each. Like the memories themselves, the thread has been cut and they are now disjointed, jumbled and hazy - because time does that.
I've been reading a lot about how memory works, how its not held in one part of us but fragmented across all of our senses. Is it any wonder we can lose track of them when there are so many ways in and out. These are small, mixed media paintings on old board. Part of me wants to keep them all together but to properly reflect how memories are fragmented, I know I need them to go to different homes with my siblings and two good friends.
NFS
Lost in The Wood
Abstract woodland acrylics/mixed media on canvas and boards.
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost"
- Dante, The Divine Comedy.
It was this line that prompted these paintings. Portraying trees and forests as protective, playful and valued places this series is called "Lost in the Wood". It occurred to me that we don't feel lost when everything looks strange or different. We more often than not feel lost when everything looks the same. Surrounded by tall trees that all look the same or stuck in long days that all feel the same.
From fairy forts to fairy tales, feeling lost or trapped can be scary but being lost is usually the start a great adventure.
These paintings are almost all sold.
Available: Triptych "Not Lost", Pink, Blue, Lilac (Framed. Triptych €1100. Can be sold individually, €400ea)
Midlanding
Acrylics on Canvas - midlands and midlife memories. These are the paintings of the forest, bogs, canals, lakes and gardens of my midlands life and some excursion memories. For the most part these are 'the straight line' paintings. I've wondered if my preoccupation with straight lines is a resonance of the straight lines of canals and rows of turf I grew up around or is that just a strange coincidence.
These paintings are all sold.
Fusion
Straight lines and big colours but sometimes I like to embrace my inner 'flaneuse' and wander down some older paths that take me somewhere entirely new. These paintings are from times when I've broken free of the self-imposed tyranny of straight lines and indulged natural strokes and swathes of colour.
These paintings are all sold
Fragments
Small Series of Acrylics on Paper and framed. Each painting is an interior-scape, a fragment of where I live in our fragments of space; the square metres of the room, outlines, guidelines, frontlines... (it was the recurring theme during the confined times of 2020 and 2021)
These paintings are all sold
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