ABOUT THE ARTIST:
I live and work on a small wind swept Peninsula on
the west coast of Ireland known as The Maharees.
The winters can be long and grey and although my
paintings are not always muted in colour. The winters
here tend to inspire an introspective and somewhat
muted mood in colour and form which is often based in
a classical art heritage. After all we are never more than
a breath away from what went before.
My paintings are mainly based around our
relationships to ourselves and to one another. I do not
set out as an artists to challenge more to give us a
greater sense of ourselves. To gaze at a painting is to
take time out from the reality of our lives and enter into
the thoughts and reality of another.
BELOW Sisterly Love
Oil on Linen, 55 x 95cm. Sisterly Love is full of symbolism.
For me the painting is full of optimism. You can see the
sun as setting or the sun as rising on a new day, either
way the painting is imbued with a quiet tranquillity.
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