After sunset 6 Dec 2022

Oil on canvas 9×8″

Bawnboy workhouse

Bawnboy workhouse, a view. Another self-portrait of me as an empty shell of a man, a ruined man. Pencil, watercolour … More

Five scenes from a mural of Irish coal miners I painted in acrylics twenty years ago…

It was 6′ high and 30′ (or was it 40′??) long but isn’t there any more. The rain eventually got … More

Piece completed

Just need to leave it to dry for a few days, brush any dust off, and give a light spray … More

Arigna Miner’s Bar 1998 revisited 2020

I made a painting of the AMB in 1998 for my friend Sean Flynn and painted the smiling faces / … More

Alders and other stuff (en plein air)

oil on canvas, 24 x 24″, Dec 6 2020 Too cold to continue with this… sunny morning, frosty too, thick … More

A foggy morning

Oil on canvas, 32 x 18″, Dec 1 2020

Boundary

Oil on canvas, 18 x 16″, Nov 28 2020 This piece is about the experience, the performance, of a poor … More

A passer-by took a snapshot of me out sketching on the hillside this murky morning

Very cold and wet weather so I could only try and get a feel for the lie of the land

Fallen by the wayside

Oil painting on canvas, 18 x 16″, Nov 25 2020 And, after slightly tweaking the mist / cloud, finding it … More