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I am what is generally known as a new wave pop folk artist. Usually I work by sitting at a desk with my head in my hands staring at the wall for several weeks, before jumping up and doing a painting in a few minutes. After which I kiss it lovingly – though only when it’s dry.
Although I’m now older than John Lennon was when he died, and Dino Zoff was when he collected a World Cup winner’s medal, I like to think of myself as an emerging artist. I’m just emerging in slow motion.
My influences include:
* Holy well decorations
* Irish ‘celebrity’ pictures
* Egyptian funerary portraits
* Venezuelan rustic art
* African barbershop signs
* religious icons
* surf T-shirts
* football cards
* crap signs
* those blue photos you get in old shop windows
A lot of my work involves fruitless searches for things that are lost, be they people, underground rivers, stories, buildings or ways of life. Regular motifs include the connecting and merging of maps, old photographs and whiskey-based visions. The beauty of the the mundane. The epiphanies – I call them “Zen Newsflashes” – that are close to home. This is partly due to a desire to make sacred the familiar and also because I am a lazy shite.
I spend part of the year in Lurraga, a small townland near Doolin in Co Clare and the rest of the time I’m based in Highbury, North London.
If you are interested in buying any of the paintings here please email me.
