Paintings 2020-2021

Hold Still

A series of oil paintings on panel, approx 12x12", partly about the bog and bog bodies, and partly about the feeling of stasis experienced by asylum seekers in Ireland in the Direct Provision system.

[Read the zine Holding Still]

The Bog Forgives

A series of dreamlike bog landscapes executed in mixed media. More than other kinds of terrain, peat bogs resist human intervention. Footprints, tools, fences and even bodies are swallowed by the earth.