Gallery Blog
Last sunset of 2020
The last sunset of 2020 over Doolin BayWe say goodbye to 2020 and we welcome 2021 when we look forward to a better year.Wishing all my customers and friends A very Happy New Year.
Snowballs in Doolin
This is a painting I did in Doolin during the heavy snow of 2018.It is most unusual to have heavy snow in this part of the world but we had about a meter deep in March of that year, so I thought it would be appropriate to show this painting at...
Gone
I pass by this cottage ruin on my way to Fanore every time I go there which is very often as I love to walk the beach and to paint there. I often wonder what became of whoever lived there, did they immigrate and never returned home, or is it there from Famine times...
Crab Island
Crab Island , Doolin. Oil on canvas. Doolin is one of my favourite places to paint.I have made dozens of paintings there, the sea and the rocks offer lots of interesting and challenging subjects. Crab Island sits just out of DoolinBay. There is a tiny ruin on the...
The Atlantic Drive
A recent painting of the Atlantic Drive in Achill Island in the medium of oil on canvas. The Atlantic Drive is one of the most spectacular drives along the Wild Atlantic Way. I have painted here many times in the different light of the West of...
Autumnal Gathering
The beautiful colours of Autumn have arrived and this is a painting of a friend gathering leaves in his garden.The painting was created outdoors on a warm afternoon in the Burren . No rocky landscape this time as the Burren landscape is quite diverse and we have our...
Doolin Storm wins International Competition
Delighted that my painting “DOOLIN STORM” is one of the winning entries in the international competition entitled “SEASCAPES” organised by multi award winning U.K. based Artists Info in conjunction with Daler Rowney. The painting was inspired by the storms...
My new website
Delighted that my new website is live after weeks of work and hope that you my patrons will enjoy browsing the new site. I would like to thank my daughter Aisling for her help in creating the content for the website, she is an up and coming artist in her...
The Weather brings a new way of life
We are having a spell of amazing weather for Ireland, we have had no rain for 21 days and temperatures have soared to 27 degrees. So evenings in the golden light eating alfresco in the garden to the sounds of nature. A cacophony of birdsong,...