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I have been life drawing and painting for over twenty years. For years I worked from models and made mostly short rapid sketches. Over the last six or seven years I have begun to paint more, mainly in acrylic but I tend to use a lot of mixed media as I like to add layers of texture. I went through a phase of painting portraits and more recently, inspired by David Hockney and his work in the north of England, I am painting the landscape around me in Dublin. I live minutes from the Phoenix Park, one of the largest urban parks in Europe, so I have been using it as my main source of inspiration. I paint in intense bursts and usually finish a painting in one sitting which may last 10 or 12 hours. I call myself an occasional artist as I have a day job but painting is a need. I can leave it for weeks but always find myself painting again.
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