Abstracts
Abstract painting is a challenge.
There is no touchstone for ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ except intuition.
Alone in front of a half-finished piece, intuition is not always clear, nor friendly.
I’m always drawn to working in Red, White and Black. In abstract though, I also love the freedom of pushing into different colour realms, playing with shape and flow, line and block, big and small.
My intention is the same as in my other art though. I want to feel each painting is an intimate invitation to pause, reflect, imagine and access a place of deep, healing calm.
Unreal City
€275
A surreal city shimmers, reflected in a river or the sea. It’s neither real nor not.
Acrylic on Wood Board
42cm x 60cm
Storm
€295
Painted as Storm Eowyn battered my remote house, this captures the ominous power of weather.
Acrylic on Paper
42cm x 30cm
Beyond The Edge
€295
It deep space, something floats.
Perhaps it’s out there, or perhaps it’s deep within the unconscious.
Acrylic on Canvas
42cm x 60cm
Dawn in Autumn
€295
From my window there are rough, scrubby fields, then a range of hills. At dawn this is where the light comes from.
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50cm x 40cm
Garden in Blue
€295
My garden is very wild. I like it that way. So do the birds, butterlies, dragonflies and assorted critters who live there.
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50cm x 40cm
Metal and Earth
€195
The basic paint here is a coper acrylic - which gives the picture a slight metallic sheen. I like how that’s at odds with its organic feel
Acrylic and Charcoal on Paper
24cm x 32cm
Sunshine and Olive Trees
€295
There’s something of the summer in this. I hope it gives you a chance to pause, as if in the shade of a quiet hacienda
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm
Landman
€145
I love that this flickers in my imagination between being a figure and a landscape.
The confining lines seem like bonds ready to be broken.
Acrylic and Graphite on Cotton Watercolour Paper
30cm x 42cm
Off-Centred #1
€65
I wanted to bring together formal ‘space-shaping’ with random, organic accidents. The result makes me smile.
Ink on Handmade Paper
30cm x 21cm
Eruption
€245
I was turbulent when I painted this. Sometimes I paint calmly - sometimes I paint myself into calmness!
Acrylic Paint on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm
Stockholm in Spring
€145
I love Stockholm. I’ve worked there many times - training dancers mainly.
Something in these blocks evokes for me the stylish laid-backness of the place
Acrylic Paint on Canvas Board
20cm x 26cm
Off-Centred #2
€65
I love the mix of formal and random in here. Somehow nodding to Eastern Art - yet totally not.
Ink on Handmade Paper
25cm x 21cm
Islands
€245
I love setting myself limits. Here I decided to use only black!
The end result reminded me of looking down on Greek islands and imagining all the boat journeys connecting them
Paint on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm
A Stitch in Time
€145
Sometimes when I’m walking, it seems as if the whole landscape is suddenly unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.
It’s very confusing.
Acrylics on Canvas Board
21cm x 30cm