Winter Harbour Drawing

                                               Winter Harbour         C. 2005 
                                                  Pastel on paper,
                                                     12 x 12 ins

Christmas Mummers

Christmas Mummers
Charcoal on paper
16.5 x 23 ins

Snow drift remnants

Snow drift remnants Dec '10

Lost where they fell, the boy's blue, a girlish pink,
footsteps grey on white, the hushed quiet
after our voices had echo fallen
in the garden ringed with innocence
in the last days of a snowbound season.

Lost sole / soul survivor

Sole survivor Achill Island 2010

Years trodding the boards
out of Murmansk and the North Sea,
dipping a Toe in the ice fraught oceans
I even got to kick against the emerald chill
of iceberg slopes
now my after life, is here in Achill sound. beached, dryblown
with whale husk and filligrees of netting,

a few baldy dayglow bouys that bobbed out of Liverpool or Swansea,

out there it's seagull screech and a thrum of wave on keel,

my best years had me worn out, shuffling redlight streets in New Amsterdam,

or Hong Kong, I was made for those loafing harbours,

their fish and chips fumes, tar and oil murk,
oh the ardent cigarette buts I scuffed!

Here its wind keening in the shells and sheep skulls 
rain blown famine villages,
ghostly stepping stones for a pier. 

City under Snow, 2004 (From the Archive)

                                               City under Snow  2004
                                                Acrylic on paper
                                                 16.5 x 23 ins

                                    It snowed in the city that year for the first winter in decades, 
                                   near where we lived. The lanes and spaces became clean and white, 
                                 a stark geometry of urban fields, rooftops and roads.  

From the Archive, Winter Interior, 2003

Winter Interior, 2003
Oil on board
24 x 20 ins.
(OPW Collection)

Blackbirds in the snow, 2010

Blackbirds in the snow
Pastel on paper
8 x 11 ins

Achill Storm images 2010

                                    Achill Storm I - II   Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 ins

http://www.hamiltongallery.ie/

Light Years, Solo Show At the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo Until Dec 4th

Spooky Halloween drawing (from the dim past)

Urban Halloween 2003, Charcoal on paper, 16.5 x 23 ins

Achill I - III (For Nov 4th, Solo show, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo)

Achill I - III, Pastel on paper, 5 x 8 ins

From the archive 2004

Aine, 2004, Acrylic & Charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 ins.

The Headland Series, for Solo Show @ Hamilton Gallery, Sligo Nov 4th 2010.

Winter Headland, Oil on canvas 27 x 22 ins.

Raughley, Pastel on paper, 8 x 11 ins.

Sligo Headland, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 ins.

After the Storm, Oil on canvas, 17 x 20 ins.

The Headland Series for Solo Show, @ the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo Nov 4th, 2010

                                      Winter Headland, Oil on canvas, 27 x 22 ins

                                          Raghley, Pastel on paper, 8 x 11 ins.

                                      Sligo Headland, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 ins.

                                    After the Storm, Oil on canvas, 17 x 20 ins.

The Headland Series, for 'Light Years' Solo show, The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Nov 4th 2010

Sligo Headland, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 ins

Enclave, 2010, Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 ins.

Enclave, 2010, Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 ins.

For Paul McKenna Gallery Group Show, Omagh, Oct 30th, 2010

Raughley, Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 ins

Summer Headland, Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 ins

http://www.mckennagallery.com/

Studies from America, June 2010

                                             Hudson river, study, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 9 ins

                                         Troy I, Acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 ins

                                            Troy II, Acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 ins


                       http://www.canal-reinspired.com/

Samhain, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 ins.

Samhain
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 ins
(Leitrim County Council Art Collection)

for SEEN / UNSEEN exhibition, Westport arts Festival, Mayo Oct 2010

Achill Ruin 2010
Oil on canvas
12 x 12 ins