50x60cm oil on canvas. Me plus a covid stone and a half I reckon.
The Prodigal Pagan
50x50cm oil on canvas. Something to do with Christianity and Paganism and Bull cults and masculinity and middle-age-dom and Taurus and CoronaVirus™.
The Velocity of Now 2
20x20cm oil on board. Fun bit of portrait practice of Thomas Sheridan.
Rex
30x30cm oil on board.
The Steps of the Temple
40x50cm oil on canvas. Borrowing heavily from Franz Von Stuck and Frank Frazetta. Something to do with danger, temptation and pitfalls on the way to something better.
Abandoned Train Tunnel on Bray Head
30x30cm oil on board. Painted from a pencil sketch I made a few years ago. I heard Francis Hamel say once that a good pencil sketch should provide enough information for you to make a painting from. Worth a shot.
Giff
Andrew Gifford, one of my top 3 favourite painters. 20x40cm oil on board. I intended to do a paint sketch in one sitting of some of my favourite painters. This is the first one. But it ended up being more of a finished painting over many layers. Theres a few reasons for this: I forget how to paint every time …
The Velocity of Now
A quick oil sketch of Thomas Sheridan with a couple of bales of briquettes. 42x21cm oil on board.
Dollymount Digger
Commission. 60x50cm oil on canvas.
Sandymount Dawn 2
The Cockle Lake on Sandymount Strand at dawn one freezing cold January morning. 20x20cm oil on board.
Psychadelic Tourist
20x20cm oil on board. A biting satire on psychadelic tourism and the commoditisation of modern man in search of a soul………or just a mushroom wrapped in clingfilm.
Sandymount Dawn 1
20x20cm oil on board. A freezing cold January morning on Sandymount Strand looking toward Dun Laoghaire.
Sandymount Dusk 5
30x40cm oil on canvas. Sandymount Strand, Co. Dublin.
Sandymount Dusk 4
Sandymount Green. 20x20cm oil on board.
Sandymount Dusk 3
20x20cm oil on board.
Sandymount Dusk 2
20x20cm oil on board.
Sandymount Dusk 1
20x20cm oil on board.
Enniskerry Graveyard – plein air
20x40cm oil on board. Spooky.
Vico Trees – Plein Air
Vico Road, Dalkey, County Dublin. 30x30cm oil on board. 3 or 4 sessions and still not 100% happy.
Dalkey Island Martello Tower – plein air
30x30cm oil on board. 3 plein air sessions in total.