" We are touched by what we touch, shaped by what we shape, enhanced by what we enhance" Thomas Berry
Each painting is a remembering, a commemoration, and a ceremony of invitation that circles around the question of where we belong. Landscape painting has been for me an inevitable return to loving our natural world, in grief and in praise.
following in the Hawk's flight, for Caít 2018 Oil on Canvas 48" x 36"
A painting asks to be so much more than a recording of a thing. Paintings long to be born, out of hands, out of pigments, oil and the air in which they are being made. An artist's inspiration is matched with the process of illuminating what was before a blank surface. What was nothing, is now something. Much of my work is made slowly with oil paints, considering this creative moment and pausing often to notice growth and becoming.
Tallulah 2018 acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 Sold
Winter calling Spring 2019 Oil on canvas 48 x 60
Borderlands Acrylic on wood 2018 36 x 12
Omey 2017 36 x 12 acrylic on wood
Connemara Morning 5 x 7 2017 Acrylic on wood Up on Tonn Tine acrylic on canvas 2017
Saltee Islands morning remembering 2018 acrylic on canvas
last light on inishlacken 5 x 7 Acrylic on wood
Thomas's Sanctuary 12 x 16 Acrylic on canvas 2017
Longing and belonging 36 x 48 oil on canvas 2016
The first time I met you 2017 acrylic on canvas
Carraroe Morning acrylic on canvas 2018
Out to Inishlacken 1 2017 acrylic on canvas
The Ley of the Land 2018 Oil on canvas triptych 24 x 144
