These pages celebrate what it means to be alive…ecstatic, challenging, painful, intense or sublime…it is the stuff of myth and legend as we experience it in our ordinary lives. These pictures are my attempt to see the numinosity of this experience. I thank the extra-ordinary people who have made this work with me.

Who am I?

I was born in New York City in 1954 and moved to Ireland in 1966. In Trinity College, Dublin I studied English Literature and History. For the remainder of my 20s I worked in printing and publishing. I began painting full time in 1985, making three dimensional work in 1989 and photo-based work in 1998.

Selected exhibitions: National Portrait Awards, Dublin 1986/93; Royal Hibernian Academy 1988/96; Sculpture in Context, Conrad Hotel, Dublin 1996; Coda 9.99, Dublin Castle 1999; Department of Arts, Dublin 2001; Frederick Gallery, Dublin 2001; Metatron Gallery, Enniskerry 2004. Gora Gallery, Montreal 2007. For more recent dates see below.
painting full time in 1985, making three dimensional work in 1989 and photo-based work in 1998.

Collections: Totm’a Museum, Vologda, Russia; Irish Permanent; Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin; Greek Embassy, Dublin.
painting full time in 1985, making three dimensional work in 1989 and photo-based work in 1998.

From 1997 through 2002 I have been artist in residence: with a young farmers group, in a plastics factory, in three schools and in an asylum seeker transit camp.
painting full time in 1985, making three dimensional work in 1989 and photo-based work in 1998.