painting
Hiraeth 2024
Hiraeth reflects the entwined oppositions of grief and beauty, love and loss, longing and belonging. . The work holds the essence of a journey shaped by these tensions: a heart suspended between two worlds, fractured yet full. It dwells in the quiet space of hiraeth, where presence and absence coexist, and where one is always, impossibly, both home and away.
Repurposed hand built frame, mixed media including oil, acrylic and medium on canvas. 170cm x 130cm.
The Other 2024
The Other reflects the fragile terrain of fractured identity, where internal selves and the world’s gaze collide, carrying the quiet ache of being seen as “other” while negotiating the liminal spaces of inclusion and exclusion, recognition and estrangement, across multiple worlds. Right: was informed by historical research of Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land on the First Fleet.
above: mixed media including gesso, synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, oil pastel and medium on cardstock. 100cm x 100cm.
left: mixed media including gesso, synthetic polymer paint on wood panel. 30 x 40 cm
Mask 2023
Mask inhabits the fractured terrain of the self, a fractured, layered and abstracted visage that speaks to the many masks we wear, the tension between performance and truth, revealing the difficulty of recognising authenticity amid the masks we inhabit.
mixed media including gesso, synthetic polymer paint and , medium, on wood panel. 30 x 40 cm
Flight 2018
Right: Flight follows a hybrid baby bird as it takes its first tentative leaps into the sky, a delicate moment suspended between hesitation and courage, vulnerability and possibility, capturing the wonder of discovering one’s own wings. Gesso, synthetic polymer paint, on wood panel. 30 x 40 cm
Flight 2021
Left: Flight drifts through a luminous world of water, peony and lilies, where figures swim effortlessly. The painting explores the rhythm of movement, the interplay of reflection, and the intimate relationship between body and water, evoking freedom, quiet contemplation, and the subtle poetry of immersion in nature’s embrace. Mixed media including gesso, synthetic polymer paint, oil, on wood panel. 90 x 122 cm
Himself celebrates the dance between artist and muse, the delicate interplay of presence and imagination, of what is seen and what remains unseen. It is an invitation to witness, to participate, and to be drawn into the dance of meaning, forever intertwined.
Mixed media including gesso, oil paint, oil pastel, graphite and medium on canvas 90 x 122 cm.
Himself 2025
Alone in the Sunset 2021
Alone at Sunset dwells in the subtle rhythms of river and sky at dusk as the day wanes. The abstract forms explore the interplay of light, reflection, and the flow of the city, tracing the meditative cadence of cycling alone.
Mixed media including gesso, synthetic polymer paint, resin and medium on cardstock. 84.1 x 118.9cm
Undercurrents 2020
Surfaces unfold within landscapes, in dialogue with soil, leaves, water, and other natural elements, tracing the subtle agency of more-than-human forces. Gesture, mark, and texture emerge through observation, chance, and responsiveness, tracing the entanglements of human and non-human systems. The work remains open-ended and relational, holding the memory of flux, interconnection, and transformation, perpetually in becoming
Mixed media charcaol, pastel, ink, soil, leaves, sticks, water, paper and natural elements and on cardstock. 85 x 120cm
