A work in progress – oil & oil pastel on canvas, 30×24".
This is a small waterfall I discovered amidst the woods in the Slieve Bloom mountains, in Co. Offaly. I don’t know how successful my efforts at landscape are. I think a painting should say more than “here’s this thing I saw.” But I don’t know if these do. I’m finding it hard to articulate what it feels like to be here, alive in the world, and looking at Stuff. It feels good.
View towards Slieve Bloom mountains.
Oil on canvas, approx 20×17.5"
A ridiculously large (6-foot) oil painting of some rocks, mainly. Still a work in progress and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The problem with working on a scale like this is that you can spend five solid hours working on it, step back, and it will not appear to have made the slightest damn difference.
Untitled (Triptych)
A rare foray into landscape. This was an interesting challenge and I made a tremendous mess. Palette knives are fun.
Oil on linen, whole thing 108"x60" (nine feet by five).
Edit: marginally better quality image
Cove.
A fairly rare attempt at landscape, or rather seascape. This was inspired by a trip I inadvertently took to a small coastal village somewhere in west Galway. I was feeling cranky and antisocial so I took a camera and a bottle of wine and took a ride on a bus until I got to somewhere I didn’t recognise. I highly recommend it.
Chalks and watercolour on paper. (Approx 12" x 25")
