Land Memory 3
Mixed media on paper 44.5 x 51 cm 2023
Land Memory 1
Mixed media on paper 35.5 x 41 cm 2023
Bog Study 1
Mixed media on paper 59 x 84 cm 2025
Willows
Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2026
Approaching Storm
Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2026
Red Earth
Oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2026
Erosion at Boolakeel
Mixed media on paper 100 x 70 cm 2025
Bog Near Portmagee
Oil on canvas on board 45.5 x 61 cm 2024
Cutting The Turf
Oil on panel 30 x 30 cm 2025
Jack's Bog
Oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm 2025
The Way Up The Hill
Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2025
Land-Memory
What resonances come from deep engagement with place? What do we carry away with us and what do we leave behind?
My work has always been informed by an engagement with nature and landscape in the very broadest sense; the tales we tell about it and the traces we leave on it. Humankind's interactions with the earth, our relationship with home, with exile and with belonging; all these have surfaced in, and been the background to, my work at different times.
An important thread is the idea that the physical landscape embodies the history of what has happened on it and to it, and that it can be an emotional connection for people who have left their home-place or homeland. I am exploring ideas of nostalgia, regret, inheritance, continuity as well as change.