Inspired by dream, my friend commissioned this image for his difficult 2nd album cover. Redwood forest at dusk.

50x50cm oil on canvas.

60x80cm oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas
50x60cm

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Russel Williams was a philosopher from Manchester. He spoke of knowledge of several past lives and deaths which was the spark of inspiration for this painting.

A little inspired by Conor Walton’s painting ‘Barbarians at the Gate’, Author Douglas Murray and recent riots in France, this image popped into my head of the downfall of the current empire of the West. It has the feel of the blind ignorant mob coming to tear down the existing hierarchy. Tearing things down can be good….like a a snake shedding its skin…. or bad like when the last animal of a species goes extinct.

Commissioned oil on canvas

100x50cm.

Embiggened from a 20x20cm study.

80x80cm oil on canvas.

25x30cm.

Oil on canvas.

Somewhere West of Ballinskellig and North of Keel.

The colours remind me of some or Orpen’s WW1 battlefield paintings.

The Gap of Dunloe, Co. Kerry.

Plein air oil on canvas. Finished en studio.

25x35cm.

20x20cm oil on board.

60x50cm oil on board.

50x20cm Oil on board

I stumbled upon Cable O’Learys pub one evening and copied a view that Andrew Gifford once painted. Still a lot to learn to integrate into my own style.

30x25cm oil on canvas.

The 5th painting from a trip to County Kerry.

45x21cm oil on board.

36x20cm oil on board.

The first study of 13 I painted on my recent trip to Kerry. There was plenty of rainshowers. Bizarrely, I cut open my pinky finger on a palette knife quite badly . Thanks to Molly in Cashel for fixing up my gross finger.

50x20cm oil on board.

A beautiful sunny morning painting Waterville skyline from a beach near Ballinskellig.

22.5x19cm oil on board.

While I was painting a nice gentleman stopped his van and offerred me a spare coat he had. Little did he know I had several pairs of longjohns on underneath my chic turtleneck so I declined. But he told me this was Breda’s house that I was painting.

30x40cm

Oil on Canvas

Roosters. A good solid potatoe. Aye.

Oil on canvas

20x20cm

40x20cm oil on canvas.

First plein air of the year. Chilly out.