About Me

I started drawing very early. In fact I can’t remember exactly when. We all drew, my brothers, sister and I. We used to lay on the kitchen floor with pieces of paper and colouring pencils, absorbed in creating pictures for mum. Mum would be ironing or making something for lunch in the kitchen and the BBC would be on the radio. I was fascinated by what my eldest brother could draw initially -he was naturally gifted and bright, so we had to work hard to keep up!

After a school life, where I was largely absent in spirit, I was politely invited not to come back after the summer break at the end of my ‘O’ level exams. I was sixteen years old. Furthermore, the prevailing attitude at the time was that it’s impossible to make a living through art. I had absolutely no idea of what to do with myself after school ended and so I became apprenticed into the printing trade. It wasn’t a complete waste of time – socially I had a ball and I did learn a side to colour management that few other fine artists ever get. 

After that all collapsed in the mid-nineties, many of my co-workers became taxi and bus drivers. I decided to make my own way in the world and went back to art.

For many years, my illustration work appeared regularly in the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post and the Wall Street Journal, amongst many other papers. You can look at my illustrative work here.  I loved most of the work I did for those papers but it was time to move on.

I’ve been involved in exhibitions in Le Louvre in Paris and the International Cultural Centre of the City of Nantes. My work also hangs in the British National Collection.

Art requires work. I practice all the time – with my daily painting studies and my essential work. Look at the tabs above. I’m not interested in art fairs and I don’t go to them. I work to please myself. I use the finest materials to create my art. If you want to discuss acquiring a painting, we can talk.