City Fix (4), 2024 Print

I am a 49 year-old emerging Anglo-Irish artist currently specialising in hand-made printmaking. I trained at the Royal College of Art, where I received a scholarship. Prior to becoming an artist, I had a successful career as a journalist. I am interested in expressive potency and authenticity, seeking to explore the full range of human experience - and my history - through the visceral suggestiveness of my work: from the epiphanic joy of a reconfigured garden, to the intensity of city life, with all its pleasures, pains, and aids to addiction. Here I’m exploring the ways in which colour, composition and mark-making can be most effectively used to convey the intensity of experience. I am also interested in the image as a creative force: art not as representation but as a willed act of the imagination. Here the playfulness of production also appeals to me: the viscosity and textures of oil-based pigments; the foregrounding of technique; the transformation and development of the image involved in print.