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SOLD OUT!'In West Clare' (We are Eternal)
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SOLD OUT!‘Tis (All before us)'
Oil on Canvas,
180cm x 120cm
‘Tis – the west of Ireland abbreviation of ‘it is’ is a term I love to hear. The softness of it fills me with affection.
‘Tis was also the title of Frank McCourt’s second memoir. Following on from his best-selling ‘Angela’s Ashes’which portrayed the bleakness of Ireland in the earlier half of the last century.
While we still enjoy significant rain fall, Ireland of today is vibrant. In spite of challenges economic and social, we are as a people – I feel, forward looking. And our landscape is abundant – it holds and inspires us all.
‘Tis’– this painting, is about looking forward. It was made in many, many layers and gave its own set of challenges. When composing a painting, I am not looking for likeness but sensation – the feeling of coming home or being home. Place is important but not in a geo map specific way. I am creating sense of place.
Just as happiness is never truly a thing but more a feeling. I am endeavouring to evoke that feeling when you round the Irish coastline and the views, as Seamus Heaney so beautifully set the scene in his poem Postscript “.. catch the heart off guard and blow it open”.
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Get a Book, Postcards AND an Art Card Gift Set all together now for €49.That’s:
- A Gift Box of Art Cards (€20) – 10 cards & envelopes per set - choose either NEW Sea Paintings OR Regular Art Cards** Please make a note in the checkout
- My book HOME (€20)
- A Gift Box of Art Postcards (€15)– 12 cards & envelopes per set
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SOLD OUT!**VERY Limited Stock**
I am delighted to introduce my first EVER Calendar. The 2024 Calendar brings together some of my best loved oil paintings including work from the Kerry Gaeltacht, the Mayo Lakes and the Wild Atlantic Way. The Calendar is designed as an accompaniment to your best year yet. It lists important days, significant lunar events (including Mercury in the Microwave!) and ALL the Bank Holidays. It also prompts you to enjoy every season – whether taking a sea swim, a stroll through crunchy leaves or your first mulled wine of the season. Size: A3 (297 x 420 mm) Shipping Worldwide. This calendar has been designed with love and intention. We hope it bears witness to your best year yet. And when the year is over you can cut out and keep the artworks forever.
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It’s a No Brainer! Our best value gift EVER.
Framed Limited Edition Print (Your choice of 13!) PLUS A 2024 Calendar PLUS An Art Cards Gift Set Now available for Pre-Order for collection (or postage) before Santa.
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Oil on canvas 180cm x 120cm In slip frame ready to hang These larger paintings have been stirring inside me for the past few years. It has been a pleasure to see them finally come to fruition in the studio. I am forever saying my work is ‘holding on and letting go’ . There may be more robust, verbose words for my process but the practice of turning up, letting go of all my notions and hang ups and holding on for inspiration, flow and the good stuff (that feels to my mind like fire) is essentially how I find and harness inspiration. Begin to Hope feels like a line I am making by walking, beyond the fertile void, it is of itself spilling out into the world at large
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From my 'Ballads to the Bog' series, 'Blanket Bog' was painted during my first painting residency at Cill Rialaig Artists' Retreat in Kerry. I went with the intention of painting the sea but was completely overwhelmed by the bogs and spent all my time painting there. It was glorious. I love the abundance of our bogs, their ever-changing colours and the fact they are a living, breathing thing.
Available sizes:
Medium: 24" x 18.3" @ €225.00 Large: 31" x 24.3" @ €395.00 X-Large: 40" x 31.3" @ €595.00 -
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2024 Calendar & Square Art Card Gift Set
PLUS your choice of Beannacht or Threshold Box of Blessings!
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SOLD OUT!Flume
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SOLD OUT!'From Valentia' (Above us only Sky)
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 140cm x 74cm In slip frame ready to hang This painting typifies much of the push and pull at play in my work and could equally be called ‘Holding On & Letting Go’. It was painted over the course of a year in many layers – this painting and I had something of a long loose dance before we capitulated towards each other. Lands Edge is to my mind about standing your ground – staying within the magic limitlessness of imagination – and not getting sucked into the nonsensical void. Out beyond the churning chaos there is magic. You don’t always have to see it – but you must always believe in it, for as Roald Dahl said ‘only those who believe in magic will find it’. -
SOLD OUT!Nocturne
Inspired by time fishing with my father on the Mayo Lakes, Nocturne is evocative of days ending and that very special light particular to the low sun on the lakes. I am a fair weather fisher but time on the lake with my Dad is nothing short of glorious. It is time out of time. Even though senses are accelerated with the cut and thrust of the boat traversing the waves, sideways rain and all the slip-slop sounds of water, reels and bird life – time feels somehow suspended. The experience is utterly elemental and yet really, very restful but stimulating. Beyond the shoreline, out on that horizon there is a promise of magic and reward. Great days - time well spent – the best currency – before the waves roll us back to shore and home. Oil On Canvas: 150cm x 150cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang -
SOLD OUT!Oil on board 36cm x 30cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €549.00 -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €795.00 -
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**VERY Limited Stock**
Cards are not just for Christmas!
The Complete Card Collection & Calendar Gift brings together ALL of my Card Collections, so that's: The Beannacht Box of Blessings The Threshold Box The Square Set & The Seascapes! PLUS the 2024 Calendar! There are 10 Art Cards + Envelope in each set, so that's 40 in total PLUS the 2024 Calendar. Each card has an artwork on the front and the story of the painting on reverse. All cards are blank for your personal greet. They look AMAZING framed! Shipping Worldwide. -
E Learning Art Experience
Give the gift of art this Christmas to yourself or someone who has always wanted to learn to Paint! My much in demand and super successful Abstracting the Landscape Painting Workshop is now available for the first time as an online e-course. Taught in 4 modules (which you can study at your own pace, any time from any where!), this Click & Play E-course brings together the very best lessons from many years of painting and teaching experience. Abstracting the Landscape is suitable for absolute beginners but also those with a little or a lot of experience. It teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to use a variety of tools and mediums and to approach painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style.Self Learning Abstracting The Landscape -
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SOLD OUT!Threshold
Oil On Canvas: 150cm sq €9,250.00 In Slip Frame Ready To Hang‘Threshold’ marked the beginning of so much newness for me.
After years (and years!) of treading water and often struggling to keep afloat, my painting practice and by association my life, suddenly and almost imperceptibly hit a growth spurt.
Making my largest paintings coincided with finally finding a building that would be my home and house my studio and showroom. Built pre-1900, ‘Threshold’ was created as part of an exhibition to honour the space and all that had gone before and was yet to be.
Poet and philosopher John O’Donoghue wrote beautifully of change and emergence. I loved his notion to ‘ bless the space between us’ as I felt it marked that special time between the past and the future.
“The rhythm of emergence is a gradual slow beat always inching its way forward; change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival”
I have realised life is never linear and change is as constant as the tide. Even in trying times, we must believe in perpetual motion.
Forward is always a direction. Our evolution is illuminated by blessings and possibility, but you must believe in possibility (often things you can’t yet see, but can just about feel!).
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SOLD OUT!'Wonderland'
Oil On Canvas: 160cm x 160cm In Slip Frame Ready To Hang To be full of future – dreams, plans, schemes and such – is a lovely, latent kind of energy. That’s how I felt when making this painting. As a rookie artist I painted in a traditional context – working out in the landscape, making paintings in response to place. As my practice deepened, the response has become more intuitive. I’ve learned to trust myself and the work, and to understand (to paraphrase the late, great Mary Oliver) ‘My work is loving the world…, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished’. Composition has taken on a more vital, vibrant quality – rather than thinking in terms of foreground, lines, proportions etc, making paintings now feels like composing music. It is beyond looking and seeing and involves a sort of deep cellular listening – to hear, but mostly feel the rhythm of nature. My paintings are made with oils in many layers. Creating this big painting was a joy. Pregnant with possibility, it was in and of itself a wonderland. With every layer it seemed to unfold, evolve and reveal itself to me. Often painting feels like magic - a particular kind of alchemy. It fills me with wonder and a special energy – an illumination radiating from the inside out. -
SOLD OUT!13th - 14th October 2018 | Block T, Dublin
** SOLD OUT ** This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach landscape painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. Participants will take home 2-4 completed paintings, renewed confidence in their painting ability and lots of skills to help them begin, work through and complete great paintings. Comprehensive Follow-On notes will ensure you can hit the ground running when you return home. Who is it for: Open to absolute beginners and those with a little or a lot of painting experience - the only thing you really need for this class is an open mind and a willingness to have fun while painting. The aim of this workshop is to help participants make their own unique and atmospheric response to the landscape. Please note: A key aim of this workshop is to help painters to loosen their painting style. If you want to create a photo-realist likeness this is not the workshop for you. -
SOLD OUT!DATE: 13th, 14th & 15th September 2019 | VENUE: Cork City
**Early Bird Expires 20th January 2019** **Please note: Bookings on first come, first served basis.** My Master Classes have been created to help my students nurture and further develop their own painting practice. The aim of these intense 3-day sessions is to help you delve into your area(s) of curiosity, hone your skills and to ultimately develop your own unique painting collection. Who is it for: Designed with the end-user in mind, the Master Class follows on from my Level 1 Workshops, affording each student specific 1-2-1 tutorage to address and resolve any challenges they are experiencing with their work. The emphasis is on distilling the essence of your work and developing your individual painting practice. I fully expect this to be a 'game changer' for participants, so please bring your whole self and have your weetabix in advance! As per all workshops, you will laugh a lot and get a little (or a lot) messy! You will also take home completed paintings, a reinvigorated painting practice, oodles of ideas to take forward and a clear plan for completing your own body of work. What's included:- 3 days of intense painting tuition to help you develop your own painting style with a view to creating your own collection
- All materials including acrylics, oils, cold wax, mixed media and solvents (bring your own canvas to this session).
- Guided demo's developed in response to your requirements
- Lots of 1-2-1 tuition and support structured to your specific needs
- Plenty of learning resources including an extensive library
- A great, yum, nutritious lunch every day
- Unlimited refreshments and snacks
- Structured Follow-On notes filled with resources on everything you will need to complete your first painting collection.
Contemporary Irish Landscape Painting
