I am thrilled to announce that my portrait "GameBoy" has been shortlisted for the National Gallery of Ireland's AIB Portrait Prize 2024. 

Story-telling has been my life. 

As a writer, performer and producer...my career had been centred around telling stories. 

And so it is with my art. The notion that you can relay a story through a painting is what interests me most about the medium.  

My Still Lifes are often infused with a sense of humour - sometimes its the composition, sometimes its the subject matter - Lego figures for example. I sometimes work on still life commissions which feature items that are personal to the intended recipient. Items associated with their work lives or family. 

My portraits also aim to tell a story. I work with video a lot - spending time with the sitter and getting a sense of their personality and character. It allows me the time and space to discover a moment that you don't always get with a posed portrait.  My intent is to catch the subject in mid-flow.

"Your portraits look so natural!" is the reaction I get most often. 
And that's the aim. 

I remain a work in progress.