ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Painting is the most important thing in my life.I paint every day, and I exhibit regularly in local galleries and have also had great success when I exhibited in London and Dublin. I love travelling and have learned a lot from my trips. Seeing the powers of Velazquez's 'Pope Innocent X'; the sheen of the material, the apparent movement in the subject's hand. The beautiful stillness and light in Vermeer's'Woman Reading A Letter' the humour and cinematic quality of Hopper's 'Soir Bleu' in person has affected not only my passion, but the way in which I treat my subjects. I paint people from film and modern culture as well as people I know. If they fit into the scene I'm trying to create, then I cast them. The landscapes may change in my work, but it's the emotion underneath tha's important to me.