I am primarily a landscape painter concentrating on Irish scenes with occasional departures into abstract and expressionist themes when the mood (or wine) takes me. Skies and clouds are a bit of an obsession - I believe in looking up rather than down - and feature strongly in many of my works. I studied photography at Belfast Art College in the '80s, learning the nuances of composition and an appreciation of light. My training in painting followed at the East Antrim Institute. I believe in working fast to capture the mood and essence of a subject and rarely go back to rework...more
