I am an Irish artist working predominantly in paint, and also in photography. My work is concerned with how land is shaped, used, remembered and sustained and with the ways these relationships can be registered through photography and reimagined in painting. My practice is rooted in a farming context: I grew up on a small mixed farm in the 1960’s and have run my own farm for the past 25 years. I also spent six years working on agricultural programmes in East/Horn of Africa, mainly supporting access to water resources and food production. These experiences have informed my perspective and my awareness of the interconnections, across time and space, between people, land, systems and resources.

Through painting, I work with abstracted imagery and symbols drawn from the landscape, using a palette of earth colours. Recurring motifs and marks in the work, such as reeks, mounds, cairns, dots, lines, grids and crosses, refer to features in the local landscape such as hills, cairns, and the pre-famine lazy beds still embedded in the fields. These forms have wider cultural resonance, as similar systems of planting, storage and burial recur across different cultures and geographies. In painting, the surface becomes a site where observation, memory, and abstraction combine to produce meaning.

Ag cur prátaí | planting potatoes, 2025, oil on canvas, 20 x 30