Paintings as Portals

The Light Between 36 x 60

earth paints, ink, acrylic, gold pen on canvas

after the flood, Asheville 2025

Macalla 48 x 72

2025

earth paint, acrylic, ink, gold pen on canvas

Earth Icon/retablo

18 x 12 open

10 x 12 closed

wood, brass, earth paints, acrylic, gold pen, ink

Three Retablos, portal paintings inside painted doors that can be opened or closed, making an altar like space inside for contemplation of the sacredness of the natural world. May be commissioned.

Spring Heralds 30 x 42 Oil on canvas, private collection

Cáit’s flight oil on canvas commissioned work, private collection

Holy Well. Oil on canvas 48 x 60 Private collection

Bright in the haw’k path, oil on canvas 48 x 52, private collection

Faoilleach, 24 x 48 acrylic on canvas, private collection

Rosarium, 30 x 40 oil on canvas , private collection

An Bean Sídhe 24 x 48 acrylic on canvas, private collection

Walking with grandmothers, 30 x 40, earth pigment acrylic on canvas, available for purchase.

Am I dreaming that my paintings can become dwellings, places to lay down and rest before or within in your imagination, or indeed become sparks that manifest, markers of where you can and could be, what is possible to hold? Perhaps a kind of eco altar, an icon, a doorway between what was and what is possible……