I draw, as if through a lens, editing the visible and the invisible; striving to extract some of the hidden magic from the mundane. The candidate titles jostle with each other during the process of drawing until they eventually attach themselves.

In my looking, I find myself lost in a thicket of significant meaning, where the traces remain from the activity of people in their endeavours, where the friction of lives leave their marks on the landscape and the landscape of things: where the furrows drawn deep remain in the tilt of the soil, where the hollow in a horizon holds a story, where the scale expressed in the husbandry of the land reveals another scale of means, where the proportions chosen express an aesthetic personal, communal or indeed global, where the strata reveals the architecture of social and cultural evolution, where we’re mistaken by our assumptions and caught in the wire of nostalgia, where the landscape simply has the indelible, although at times, the faintest, footprint impressed upon its surface.

Beauty in a scene, which at first glance, appears to be strangely ordinary is what truly interests me and it’s through the process of drawing that I strive to reveal this. I seek traces that are current or historic, are seasonal or daily or are simply once in time. A trace of something magic lying within the mundane.

© 2025

UPcoming

PAPER - PENCIL - CHISEL - STONE

A joint exhibition with Michael Quane RHA and Johanna Connor visual artist.  Opens @ Lavit Gallery 22nd. May and runs until 14th. June 2025.  There will be an Artists in conversation with Brian Mac Domhnaill, Saturday 31st. June, @ 12pm.

An exhibition of work determined through the act of drawing on the artists respective media of paper and stone. Connor’s drawings, as if through a lens, edits the visible and the invisible, striving to extract some of the hidden magic from the mundane. onnor’s drawings, as if through a lens, edits the visible and the invisible, striving to extract some of the hidden magic from the mundane. 

195th RHA Annual

Opens to the public on 26th. May and will runs until 3rd. August 2025. Keep an eye out for Shedifice…

Uillinn: WCAC 41st Annual and friends exhibition 2025

This year celebrating 40 years of the West Cork Arts Centre and 10 years at Uillinn, the arts centre is making a big celebration of their Members and Friends show and inviting all artist members and friends - past and present - to participate.

“FEAST” West Cork Creates Annual Exhibition 2025

Opens @ Cnoc Buí 4th Aug

Made with Love und Wald

Shedifice

Torque