A Beautiful Stillness

Nature. Beauty. Calm

Where I stand

Nature

Ink drawing of leafless tree branches with a bright orange sun and small birds flying in the sky.

It’s our home. We don’t own it.

All living things yearn for life. We can support and care for them as they do.

We’re stewards, not masters.

Beauty

I believe in beauty. It’s everywhere. We just have to remember to look.

Art reminds us of beauty.

It lifts us, for a moment, out of time. It lets us pause in front of the best of being alive.

Ink painting of a landscape with a hill, barren trees, and abstract colored circles in shades of blue, red, and black, with a cloudy sky and small birds in the sky.

Calm

The world is frantic.

We’re constantly distracted.

I paint from a place of calm. I return to my centre and experience what it is to be truly alive right now.

I invite you to do the same.

Ink painting of a leafless tree branch extending across the sky with a blue, green, and light brown background, a red sun in the upper right, and mountains at the bottom.

Tithing

I donate 10% of the money I make through Fanad Art to organisations that do good in the world:

- alleviating poverty in Fanad
- supporting refugees to settle in Ireland (Donegal Intercultural Group)
- regenerating coastal landscape in Fanad (Fanad Coastal Group)
- emergency relief to those suffering through war, famine or natural disaster (focused on Gaza in 2025)

At the end of the year I’ll put an outline here of what donations I made and who I made them to.