'Jackdaw' watches, wonders, plots and plans. He's intelligent in a way we can never understand. He is of another world, as are all of us. Familiar and unknowable.

'Jackdaw' is a nature-inspired abstract created with water-based ink - primarily pure India ink, supplemented with a diluted yellow hue. The ink was applied with wallpaper scraper and hands onto wet paper.

The paper is handmade in India, 100% cotton, sourced from recycled garment waste. Approximately 300gsm. Imported by Liberties Papers in Dublin.

Made in the darkest days of Winter in Fanad, this captures the fire burning and the memory of summer. It’s warm, vibrant and passionate.

Diluted ink on watercolour paper.

60cm x 84cm

This is a tribute to localism on a transnational scale!

The paper is Japanese-style washi-paper, handmade in villages in Nepal, infused with bamboo leaf.

The ink is botanic, natural ink created by hand in Donegal - a combination of Walnut, Oak Gall, Madder Root & Whin Bush (Gorse).

It’s approximately 60cm x 80cm

This large abstract combines a violent splatter of black in with delicate straight lines of red pastel. The combination of chaos and containment creates a tension that asks many questions but leaves you to find the answers.

42cm x 60cm
Ink on 320 gsm Watercolour Paper

This medium-size abstract is made with a combination of hand-ground Japanese ink and commercial Indian Ink. Applied to wet watercolour paper using a wall paper scraper, it is powerful, unsettling and mysterious.
42cm x 60cm

Sun, moon, dream and terror dance above a silent city. The bold red and calm blue offer a ying/yang hint of what the future might bring: conflicting energies, different outcomes. The fluid charcoal strokes evoke the spontaneity of dreams. Through surreal, semi-abstract forms, I invite you to feel the tension and harmony of unseen forces, bringing dynamic energy and thoughtful mystery into your space.

Storm is a visceral response to the raw force of nature — painted as Storm Eowyn rattled windows and sent shudders through the house. Amid the noise and chaos, this piece emerged as a distillation of energy, motion, and the creating of a space of personal calm.

Broad, sweeping acrylic strokes clash with sharp incisions and subtle light, suggesting wind-lashed hills, turbulent skies, and the fleeting warmth of sun through cloud. The palette is earthy, ominous and storm-washed — slate greys, soot black, ochres, and fleeting warmth in the orange hues — capturing the emotional and atmospheric weight of the storm itself.

This work is for those drawn to elemental power and the poetry of weather made visible.

Deep within or far beyond, there are things we cannot imagine.

'Beyond the Edge' explores the unknown spaces of the cosmos — or perhaps the mind. A mysterious, organic form drifts across a darkened, star-speckled field, surrounded by energetic color and motion. Is it planetary, biological, metaphysical? Is it deep in space, or an idea floating across the subconscious?

‘Beyond The Edge' is a painting of questions, not answers. It suggests forms we can neither name nor understand.

Acrylic on Wood Board
60cm x 42cm

A shimmering metropolis drifts between reflection and imagination in 'Unreal City’. Vertical marks suggest urban skylines. Their mirrored forms ripple across a textured, aqueous surface. The boundary between sky and water is thin and trembling: two realms that practically. A burst of deep magenta disturbs the cool serenity, like emotion bursting through cool reflection.

Painted on wood, this piece is grounded in realism, yet remains evocative and ethereal, capturing the liminal beauty of cities, both real and imagined.

Over the years I’ve worked in many cities on rivers and by the sea: Melbourne, Brisbane, Mumbai, London, Thessaloniki, Stockholm and many others. This contains echoes of them all.

The basic paint here is a copper 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

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

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

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 olive tree in the grounds of a Greek villa or a Mexican hacienda.

“Sunshine and Olive Trees” blends earthy greens, golden ochres, and deep Mediterranean blues into a layered abstraction evoking warmth, stillness, and dappled sunlight. Bold charcoal contours frame organic, flowing shapes, inviting viewers to linger in a space that feels both vivid and contemplative — like a summer afternoon held in memory.

Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm

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

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

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