RESPONDING TO THE DARKNESS DESCENDING
A series about light, resilience, and renewal in a time of uncertainty.
Welcome
I’m an Irish artist based in London. I came to painting after many years in theatre, working as a director, actor, designer and maker.
The work grows from people I’ve known, places I’ve travelled through, and questions around memory, identity and imagination. Some pieces are portraits or landscapes; others use colour and abstract form.
Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 4
By the time I reached this fourth painting, I was thinking less about the darkness itself and more about the dawn — the future.
The sunflower emerged from that change of direction. Its seed head holds the next generation: something ending, something beginning, and the possibility of renewal.
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…
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