RESPONDING TO THE DARKNESS DESCENDING
A series about light, resilience, and renewal in a time of uncertainty.
Welcome
You know the pull of belonging, the ache of exile, the promise of return.
My paintings live in those tensions — portraits alive with presence, abstract fields of colour, and landscapes steeped in place.
I came to painting through theatre, carrying its drama and staging into the studio. My life between Dublin and London — marked by migration, belonging, and renewal — continues to shape the work.
Step inside, where your story and mine might meet.
But the blink…
But the blink… was selected for ÍOMHÁ, an exhibition celebrating 30 years of the Irish Cultural Centre in London.
The painting traces a journey from the cave paintings of our ancestors to the incredible revelations of the Hubble and Webb telescopes—human life in the vast sweep of time.
The Lover
The first painting in my Point of Focus series, built on a simple idea: we never see a face whole. We look at an eye, a mouth, a hand — one point at a time. The portrait is something we assemble.
Eight photorealistic panels. Each captures a separate moment of attention — a gaze, a gesture, the texture of a life lived. Together, they create something no single fragment could reveal.
The joy of new people and new places…
Relationships make us who we are…
The question of evolution…
