I am very grateful that life has given me the opportunity to explore the different avenues which appeal to me as an artist and I must say that I love getting lost in my imagination as I watch what is happening on the canvas!

It can even sometimes feel like I am watching someone else paint and I am just an observer wondering how this is happening and if I am truly responsible, or am I simply being guided by a part of my consciousness that I have no control over.

I seem to drift into a place where there are no limitations, a place where anything is possible as I become completely absorbed and it feels like I am becoming part of the painting itself, it’s a beautiful and freeing experience. But an experience that is as elusive as a dream, a dream I will most likely spend the rest of my life trying to capture while I often wonder if I will ever be satisfied with my efforts.

Sometimes, I can obsess over a piece for weeks while it might look like I just threw paint at the canvas and walked away, if only it were that simple!

Painting for me is about creating Harmonious Contrasts, and a reflection of life as I see it, while exploring the abstracted patterned nature of the human sensory experience, I try to tickle the senses of the observer and create a joyous and happy feeling.

Each painting is a mirror of nature which I have been blessed to have spent my life studying with all of its astounding mix of patterns and colors.

I have also noticed that any time I have approached the canvas with a set idea in mind, it inevitably gets thrown out as the piece takes on a life of its own and evolves into something far more interesting than any ideas I may have had to begin with.

This approach for me means letting go of my ego and simply being true to the painting as it is evolving and to myself as an artist, another reason I only sign my paintings on the back.

I began painting in a Monastery in Ireland, at a time when I believed that this was the life I was meant to live, guided by a deeply spiritual monk who was able to convince me despite my own doubts and insecurities, that artistically, I had a gift which I was obliged to pursue. He was and is the only Art teacher I have ever known.

With that said, I have been a keen observer of some of the great abstract painters, like Pollock, Moses, Gerhart, and Rothko, inhaling the effect their work has impressed upon me but never wanting or trying to copy them, to me that would be sacrilege.

Instead, I allow their influence to settle upon me and emerge as it may.

Thank you for reading this and I really hope you enjoy my paintings.