Artist Statement
I am a visual artist, mainly a painter, concerned with stillness, loudness, quietness, objects, subtleties, Ireland, rural spaces, domestic spaces and narratives. Equally, my work focuses on the materiality of the oil paint medium itself; how it can sit upon a surface, erode, and mix - how it can manipulate and accentuate imagery. For me, the act of painting is usually relatively quick and I often make several paintings in a short space of time. The paintings are often a source of comfort to me as they depict images of a kind of home. They are so familiar, yet there is an element of foreign-ness about them. I am aware that there is something slightly devastating present in them also. I am particularly interested in this dynamic.