Artist statement

Painting for me is an intuitive process.

I find inspiration and creative energy in the natural world, the landscape, the sea, the sky, the living things.

It is the movement and the interaction and the mystery of these elements that engages me.

I am fascinated by the way that nature reflects so precisely what it means to be human, therefore making it the ideal motif to express emotion.

Perhaps it is the mystery that interests me most of all, leading me more and more to an abstract visual language.

2023 TIME AND TIDE Espace Korce, Saintes, FRANCE
2018 JUST A FEELING Coastguard Cultural Centre, Tramore, IRELAND
2011 ECHAFAUDAGE 2 with Marie Tillard, Le Passage Gallery, Saintes, FRANCE
2010 WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE … SMAM Gallery, Saintes, FRANCE
2008 NEW PAINTINGS, Genesis, Waterford, IRELAND
2007 NEW PAINTINGS, La Boheme Restaurant, Waterford, IRELAND
2006 SPLIT Berkley Gallery, Thomastown, IRELAND
2006 NIGHT THE LIGHT AND THE HALF LIGHT with Barry Fitzpatrick, Blue Haven Gallery, Kinsale, IRELAND
2005 DEWALLI Lee Gallery, Cork, IRELAND
2004 MARIA GALLWEY, Blue Haven Gallery, Kinsale, IRELAND
2004 THE KERRY BLUES 1 Old Brewery Gallery, Kinsale, Cork, IRELAND
2004 THE KERRY BLUES 2 Old Market House Gallery, Dungarvan, IRELAND 2003 SOULSCAPE Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, IRELAND

Numerous group exhibitions in Ireland and in France

Painting « A brush with silence » selected for front cover of « Sky road » by Jim Nolan, Gallery Press, 2007

Charlie O’Neill, Writer and Director, Soulscape, 2003
Alannah Hopkins, Arts journalist, Irish Examiner, Ireland 2003
John Waters, Writer and Irish Times Journalist, Ireland, Earthquake of the heart, 2004
Social and Personal Magazine, Dublin, Ireland 2004
Dr. Michael Casey Arts specialist, Writer, Ireland, for The Kerry Blues 2004