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Original Contemporary Art for Modern Spaces
Paintings
About the Practice
Background
My relationship with the landscape has developed over many years of living and working in the west of Ireland. It is a place I know intimately, yet one that continues to surprise me.
My background in fine art and heritage studies has shaped how I understand place, not simply as something we see, but as something that carries traces of time, change and human experience.
These ideas have gradually become central to my painting practice.
Paint & Place
My paintings move between abstraction and representation. Some begin with a particular landscape, others with little more than a colour, a mark or the memory of a place.
I’m not particularly interested in reproducing what is in front of me. I’m more interested in what happens when the familiar begins to shift, when a landscape becomes less about its physical appearance and more about the experience of being there.
Sometimes the landscape is immediately recognisable. Sometimes it only reveals itself as the painting develops.
Process
I work intuitively, building surfaces through layers of oil paint, ink and mixed media. Marks are made, obscured, scraped back and sometimes completely removed.
There is a constant exchange between intention and accident. I might begin with a particular idea, but the materials often suggest another direction.
I like that uncertainty. It allows the painting to become something I couldn’t have entirely imagined at the beginning.
Where the landscape begins
The landscape is both a starting point and something discovered through painting. Working between observation and intuition, I allow familiar places to shift, dissolve and reassemble through colour, gesture and the physical movement of paint.
What emerges is not always a place I recognise, but something that feels deeply connected to it
Material & Gesture
Paint is never simply a means of describing something. Its weight, resistance and movement are part of the work itself. Through layering, scraping, drawing and erasure, the surface develops its own history, often revealing something I hadn’t intended.
Beyond & Visible
I’m interested in what remains of a place once its recognisable features begin to disappear. A shift in light, the weight of the ground, a distant horizon. These fragments find their way into the work, somewhere between what is remembered and what is imagined.