Being raised and based on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland provides me with endless inspiration. The charming rugged landscape coupled with its rich history of artists, musicians and storytellers has formed a foundation for my creative passion. There is something magic and otherworldy in the air here that I strive to capture in my work.

I am not interested in capturing a direct representation but rather, I am fascinated by trying to capture the essence of place. The feeling. The sensation, through colour and shapes.

A place where colours drip and dribble down the surface like soft rain, where pale tinted veils move like low light mist, where flowers are pink, red, yellow, dainty, and punctual, where leaves are speckled, dashy, long and lively, where quilt like fields, winding roads and paths ramble, where birds chirp and swoop and sit, and where bee-like wiggly lines potter along the edges.

There is an invisible energy (invisible to the eye but not to the soul) that can be felt here in nature. An energy of reassurance, of connection, of lightness and of joy. An energy of all that matters is matter. THIS is what my work is about ~ this energy, this feeling. It’s about the tangible, the intangible, the visible, the invisible, the seen and the unseen.

Recently, I have been pushing the abstract qualities in my paintings and building upon my personal vocabulary of shapes and symbols. My work oscillates between the recognisable and the abstract. I like my work to be in this in-between space, a space where ambiguity allows you to place your own memories and meanings onto the work. My hope is that you may find your own stories and signs within them. I hope that they lift your spirit and that you can both find and lose yourself in them, in the same way that I do.

I see my paintings as offerings: a way of looking, a way of faith, an invitation to a practice of paying attention and being in wonderment of the natural world.

My creative process is quite cyclical. I work towards creating 2 to 4 painting collections a year and try to reflect the seasons in this way ~ seasons in both nature and in my life.

Thank you for stopping by – I’m really glad you have discovered my art and I hope it can bring you a lot of joy – as it has me.