Traditional Painting - Personal
A selection of some of my best paintings.
Below, left: 'Self-portrait', watercolour on A3 paper, June 2022.
Right: 'Desperately Seeking Warmcans', 50cm x 70cm, oil on canvas, July 2022.
'The Rhizome Collective, Dublin', oil on canvas, 45cm x 60cm, June 2022.
'Construct/Deconstruct' summer workshops with renowned artist Tom McClean at the Malthouse, Stradbally, x2 acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 40cm, June 2022.
'Johnny Knoxville', watercolour on A3 paper, digital media, May 2022.
Below, left: 'Peadar outside Costello's, Limerick', my first oil painting, oil on A3 acrylic paper, February 2022.
Right: 'Paris, Texas (1984)', oil on A3 acrylic paper, digital media, February 2022.
*Both of these paintings created in covid isolation, as I chose learning to oil paint as my bedfellow.
'Not Afraid', acrylic on canvas, digital media, 20cm x 60cm, November 2021.
Made in reaction to multiple cases of spiking and needle-spiking that took place in bars and nightclubs at the time, a painting inspired by the old maxim that will forever prevail; "Sure we'll go for a boogie".
'Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides', watercolour on A2 paper, October 2021.
Below, left: 'Bog Lane featuring Rock of Dunamaise', acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, September 2021.
Right: 'Sky over forestry', acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, September 2021.
Below, left: 'Garden Party', acrylic on canvas, 45cm x 60cm, August 2021.
Middle: 'Painting the Particular', summer workshops with artist Mary Burke, 30cm x 40cm, July 2021.
Right: 'Purple loosestrife', acrylic on canvas, 25cm x 25cm, July 2021.
Below, left: 'Martin Short as Jiminy Glick', acrylic on cardboard and gesso, digital media, 40cm x 40cm, July 2021.
Right: 'Dennis Rodman', acrylic on canvas, digital media, 40cm x 40cm, August 2020.
