south belfast
Galleries
havens
(pillars at brownstone head, Tramore; bird’s nest in the eaves of my house in Belfast.)
Tramore.
I came across this photo I took near Glenteenassaig, Co. Kerry in the summer of 2008. I miss this place, looking forward to seeing it again.
screech owls.
started another piece. oil on panel.
Isn’t it funny how even in anatomical drawings and models, dudes just can’t resist stuffing a foetus into any available womb. As if a woman who doesn’t contain a life is as empty as an unfurnished room. As if her body is not complete without this addition. No wonder, then, that they see the rejection of this obligation as a strange perversity, a fundamental fault, like a hen that won’t lay, a cup that won’t hold water.
(All images from “The Anatomical Venus” by Joanna Ebenstein, Thames & Hudson 2016.)
A work in progress. I’m finally getting back to oil painting, resuming work on this piece from last year.
Oil on linen, roughly 32″ square.




















