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 potential titles jostle during the process of drawing and in discussion sometimes with Michael until they fix themselves. Finding a title is serious business. 

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 which is 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.

RECENT

We wish to thank Bill and Grace Kelly for their kind invitation to    exhibit at Kelly’s Cafe for the duration of The Wexford Opera Festival.

Earlier this year

Detached

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“FEAST” West Cork Creates Annual Exhibition 2025

Cnoc Buí, Aug 2nd. - 17th.

Shedifice

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195th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin

May 26th. - Aug 3rd.

Still

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PAPER - PENCIL - CHISEL - STONE

A joint exhibition with Michael Quane RHA and Johanna Connor visual artist. 

Lavit Gallery, Cork May 22nd. - June 14th.  

With an Artists in conversation with Brian Mac Domhnaill, Saturday 31st. June, @ 12pm.

PAPER - PENCIL - CHISEL - STONE: An exhibition of work brought about through the act of drawing on the artists respective media of paper and stone. 

Connor, drawing as if through a lens, edits the visible and the invisible, striving to extract some of the hidden magic from the mundane. 

Quane on the other hand incessantly scrapes, with the chisel, in the act of carving, the loose flabby bolder which ever tightens, with each pass of the chisel, into deliberate form.

Thank you to all who came…

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.

Xtorque