ABOUT ME

I live with my husband on the Sheeps Head Peninsula in West Cork overlooking a bay. It’s a beautiful spot, rugged and wild. The garden has been a work in progress for over twenty years and now it has its own little eco system, encouraging pollinators and other widlife. We grow vegetables, edible flowers and have planted many trees.

I was a teacher for many years and enjoyed teaching art skills with both children and colleagues but never seemed to have much time to explore my own art. The 2020 lockdown changed this whereby I discovered online courses offered by Este Macleod enabling me to learn new skills and experiment with a variety of media, giving me more tools with which to forage my own path in art.

I have been travelling to Australia to see family for over fourteen years and I enjoy incorporating the stories of the Noongar people, flora and fauna into my work. I find the light to be different from that in the Northern hemisphere and the colours appear most intense. 

Of course my immediate environment of the rocks, sea and hills is a constant inspiration as is the Irish storytelling, allowing reality and imagination to mingle together. I definitely see my art as a visual story. I enjoy working of a variety of surfaces and recently I’ve been experimenting with base textures such as old roof tiles and reclaimed wood.