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SOLD OUT!Painted during a time of change and in response to days spent in solitude on the shoreline. Looking out to sea and documenting it in layers felt like a meditation – a sort of roadmap in to serenity. As an island nation, I think we can be less than cognisant of the dramatic impact the sea and its proximity has on us and our lives. Taking time to really look and allow ourselves to ‘be’ all at sea is for me, invigorating, life enhancing and often life-affirming. Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm Ready to hang in slip frame SOLD -
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SOLD OUT!Home the first book about my work celebrates ten years of painting in Ireland.
Over 52 pages, Home brings together paintings from my Contemporary Painting Collections, created in response to the Irish landscape. The book also includes a short introductory essay about each of the key themes, 21 images from the collections and a foreword by Bridget Flannery.Book Specifications:
Foreword by Bridget Flannery A short introductory essay on each collection Limited edition of 1,000 copies All copies signed €5.00 from the sale of each book goes to The Simon Community to help fight homelessness 100% Irish! Created, photographed, designed, printed and bound on the Island of Ireland.All books are signed. If you would like a specific dedication please indicate that in the 'Notes' section by clicking 'Ship to a different address'.
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SOLD OUT!'In West Clare' (We are Eternal)
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm SOLD From my ‘Storm after the Calm’ collection, ‘Love like a landslide’ is an ode to love, life and the landscape. I feel so lucky to get to work in, and be inspired by the landscape. Some days it’s like starting again, I see a view and am ‘floored’ by it, as if for the first time. I think love and life are like that too – magic and utterly remarkable if we take time to really look at or think about it -
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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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SOLD OUT!HO HO HOME – It’s a **NEW** Bundle!
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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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 back! By very popular demand. 2024 was our first ever Calendar and it FLEW! 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. My 2025 Calendar is EVEN better. It brings together some of my best loved oil paintings including work from the Kerry Gaeltacht, the Mayo Lakes, the Wild Atlantic Way and my most recent 'From Source' collection. The Calendar is designed as an accompaniment to the seasons and 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. It also has very unique entries like 'No Pants Day'. We include regular treat days too - because you are SO worth it!. The 12 Monthly images are some of my most fave artwork. The print quality is AMAZING, so you can enjoy them all year and then cut out and keep forever. Please note: We sold out FAST last year so please Order ASAP to help me order sufficient number and ensure you get yours. €5 from each calendar sold will be donated to Cork Simon. Size: A3 (297 x 420 mm) €24.95 each or Buy 4, Get 1 Free Shipping Worldwide (Shipping begins the week of the 2nd of December). This calendar has been designed with love and intention. We hope it bears witness to your best, most beauty-full year yet. With love and thanks for ALL your support,
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NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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SOLD OUT!I often say my work is best described as holding on and letting go. Letting go of all the doubt, fear and notions and holding on for the good stuff to come through. This painting was years in the making – it just wouldn’t quit! I turned it to the wall for a while and then, one evening, it sort of painted itself. It was a time when I was attempting to close out my Mayo Lakes series but they kept turning up on the canvas. This is a sort of swan-song to my Mayo Lakes series, bridging the gap to The Big Sky collection that followed. It is, I think, about devotion – redemption and renewal –about new beginnings and moving on to new, ancient landscapes. Oil on canvas 100cm x 75cm in slip frame -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 36cm x 47cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00 The Covid quiet time was an interesting time to be painting about Spike Island. Pausing our own lives and regular routines gave rise to questions about why we do what we do and how we are spending our time / lives. It felt often, as if we were all sent to our rooms to examine our collective conscience! After the initial terror, I - and almost everyone I know - was grateful for the silence but that relief soon became a resolve to do things better when we were back to 'normal'. In many ways it felt as if I was primed to restart - almost evangelical - as inhabitants of Spike Island must have felt upon their re-emergence to civilisation - as if A Dweller on the Threshold -'tis ALL before us. -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm Ready to hang in slip frame The back strand at Lacken in North Mayo is one of the most breath-taking places I have ever been. It's wide and long and surrounded by huge, high dunes. In the early part of the year, a breeze blows directly across the beach creating gentle gusts of sand - it feels otherworldly and a bit magical - as if for a few moments you are suspended between worlds, neither holding on or letting go. -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00 I have been fortunate to undertake many artist residencies. It's a period of time - for me, it's been anything from a week to three months - most usually spent in solitude, contemplating new work quietly. The kind of time most parents would sell their teeth for! The quiet gets intense in the beginning - thoughts of being an utter fraud with a wasted life, devoid of any talent get noisy - and days and nights are long. I believe - wholeheartedly - if you are to make your own unique work, you must hear your own unique thoughts - warts and all - thus, there is nothing for it but to turn off your phone, walk in all weather and face forward the maelstrom of the mind. Slowly, fresh grounds of a new idea, germs of connectedness with nature shoot surely - and an enchantedness with the work begins again. Soon the silence that was solitary is now a balm - your thoughts and indeed your place on the earth seem to rhyme - or at least have a co-herence - a rhythm! It's then, in that super sweet spot, I have my best shots of inspiration - sometimes it seems a simple download, a hymn to the silence. -
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SOLD OUT!While on residency at The Ballinglen Artists Foundation, I walked a lot on Lacken Strand. In 6-weeks I only ever met 2 other people on the lovely, long strand. During these walks, ideas would percolate - some good, some bad. It's hard to know in the solitude of a retreat if you're on the right track or veering off down (another) blind alley but the constancy of contemplation on these walks helped to refine the body of work that is 'The Big Sky' . Most times on these walks I would document those thoughts in a notebook and it is these ramblings - thoughts and tangents - that underpin this love letter to the world from Lacken. Oil on Canvas 45cm x 35cm in Slip Frame -
NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 100cm x 70cm SOLD Painted in a series of breathy layers, ‘A Second Coming – In Ciarraí’ was made while on residency in Cill Rialaig, in Kerry. It commemorates the life of a friend. My residency was in January when the world seemed slowly to begin again. From high up on Bolus Head during those short, moist days, I wondered how do we distinguish time and mark out days. Indeed, how do we capture the essence of a life – but in breaths. And so this painting was made slowly in lots of very loose layers. I wanted to paint like breath on glass – similar to the way weather, hovering between sea and sky, makes a ghostly impression over The Skelligs. The painting became a sum of it’s parts – lots of light layers which, when combined attempt to capture the essence of light and a life. -
SOLD OUT!I made this painting while on retreat in Kerry early last January. Being surrounded by sea, Ballinskelligs rarely see's snow, so it was a great pleasure to witness the smallest amount atop the boglands. Mixed media on board 40cm x 25cm SOLD -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm Ready to hang in slip frame This painting is another song of praise, an ode to the sea as it renews, invigorates and keeps us buoyant - leading us homewards. -
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SOLD OUT!A Turn For Grace
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SOLD OUT!Oil on Canvas 20cm x 20cm SOLD - **Now Available In Limited Edition Print** HERE. From my ‘Land of Plenty’ collection, ‘Across the sea to the Skelligs’ was painted following a residency at Cill Rialaig in Kerry. Situated on Bolus Head – Ireland’s most south-westerly point, the residency is set in a famine village that looks out at the Skelligs – the early Christian monastic islands. The rugged sea seemed to span a mystical journey of centuries and yet I felt connected by instinct and some sort of magic thread to this ancient other world. -
SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 46cm x 36cm In slip frame ready to hang Memory plays a huge part in my work. Recalling time and place sensations in all its subjectivity is very much part of the push-pull and play of reconstructing memories. After Nephin was painted following my recent fishing trip with my Dad – it was a glorious time in a wonderful place. Unforgettable really. Yet when I come to paint it – I think mostly of sensations. Weather rolling in, the boat setting off from the shore and rolling out across the lapping lake. The mountains are there - and the moody sky and water - but I think what I am trying to capture is that precious time which feels like water in our hands. -
NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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Since time began, or since I started printing Art Cards, I always created mixed boxes of Art Cards i.e. a combination of square and rectangle shaped cards. Having carried out some research it seems LOTS of you wanted a set of square cards and so I am DELIGHTED to launch my New Art Card Collection Gift Pack. From the classics to my most recent paintings, this brand new collection brings together 10 of your favorite Paintings in one Art Card Gift . All 10 cards are square (145mm sq). Blank for your own message they come with 10 envelopes. Each card is of the highest quality print and illustrates a contemporary landscape painting from my collected body of work. I have included the story of how the painting came to being –on the reverse of each card - for you and your recipients to enjoy. All cards are blank on the inside for your own message and are suitable for every sentiment. Highly finished and presented with matching envelopes, each Gift Pack can be personalized with a note (please just let me know your preferred greeting in the ‘Order Notes’ section in the final stages of the checkout!). As with all my product, cards can be Shipped Worldwide. Thank you for your support! Contemporary Landscapes from Ireland Art Postcard Gift Box €25 - that's 10 cards for €20.00 (RRP €2.95 each). Postage & packaging: €3.95 in Ireland and €5.95 worldwide
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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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SOLD OUT!When I first visited Carrowmore Lake it was in a deluge. The rain was incessant and it was as if there had been an evacuation. The rain teemed and solitude seemed it's constant companion. Nestled next to a bog and not far from Ballycroy National Park, and close to Erris beo - it is one of the most Irish landscapes you could hope to witness. The rain makes it all the more moody. I have seen it in sunshine and it is equally enchanting then too. Oil on Canvas 40cm x 40cm in Slip Frame -
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Contemporary Irish Landscape Painting
