My current project focuses on utopian settings found in furniture shops, restaurants, bars and hotel rooms.
I find it interesting how these places are advertised as an 'ideal world', yet they are mostly unaffordable and are impossible to replicate in our own homes.
Through large-scale oil paintings, the use of colour and large brush strokes, I hope my work offers an escape from reality for the viewer. This plays on the fact that such arranged settings are themselves distanced from reality.
'Illusion', Oil on paper, 94 x 86cm
Installation view; Studio
Installation view; Studio
'Hotel Room'; Oil on paper, 27 x 38cm
'Rush'; Oil on paper, 25 x 38cm
'Perspective', Oil on paper, 100 x 110cm
'Abandoned', Oil on paper
'The Monread', Oil on canvas, 160 x 130cm
'Aimless', Oil on canvas, 80 x 110cm
Teaching Placements
Stewarts Care, Palmerstown (SEN), Co. Dublin
Caritas College, Ballyfermot, Co. Dublin
Coláiste Mhuire, Ballygar, Co. Galway
Holy Rosary College, Mountbellew, Co. Galway