‘Sea breeze’
'Sea breeze' exhibition To all my online followers and supporters: You are invited to my solo exhibition in The Gaslamp Gallery called 'Sea breeze'....
Small Pleasures
Small Pleasures Today I thought I'd talk about my small acrylics. Over the last few weeks the weather has been a little better than the norm...
Portrait bible
Portrait Revolution - The Portrait Bible I received this book today, and I'd like to share the story behind it. For those of you who have the book...
Portrait of Rosa
White pastel portrait on black paper I havenโt done many portraits recently, as Iโm trying to steer away from them. This one was done as a favour...
Dublin Plein Air Festival
A Breath of Plein Air Wow! What a week! And I'm not talking about just the weather! I am talking of the fab week that was the inaugural plein air...
Free Watercolour Classes
Painting Classes in the garden Series of FREE watercolour painting classes coming up in Kimurry Nursery as a part of Wexford County Flower &...
Thoughts after Bloom and new exhibition news
Bloom! Bloom!!! Where do I begin? I know it's been two weeks but it feels longer and I'm only just getting back to normal!! The show itself was only...
Meadow Glory and Bloom 2017
Bloom 2017 This year I have the pleasure of showing my paintings at famous Bloom In The Park - Ireland's largest garden festival held as always in...
The Red Gallery
Painting Poppies Painting lipstick red poppies is definitely one of my guilty pleasures. I think I have painted hundreds of them by now. And still...
Camellias – time lapse video
Camellias watercolor 42cm x 57cm Available Camellias, time-lapse video. Hope you will enjoy this time lapse video of how I painted Camellias. I had...
Buzz in Purple
Watercolor workshop As some of you know I spent the last weekend in Waterford at the first, and hopefully not the last, Art on the Island festival....
Sea, waves, boat and painting
Rhythm of the waves This painting is a commission I did recently. Now I always relish the challenge of ย painting water, but this one I particularly...
Art On The Island
Waterford Castle Hotel On Saturday April 8th and Sunday April 9th 2017ย I will have a pleasure to exhibit with fellow artists at Art On The Island...
Mum’s Garden
Painting Roses I decided to name this new painting 'Mum's Garden' . I didn't have any recent pictures of her garden and my memories of our garden...
All about green
St Patrick's Day I've been in Ireland now 13 years and each year I'm still amazed at the excitement and atmosphere on st "paddys" day, this year...
How to name a painting
Naming a painting I have always struggled when it came to naming a painting And until recently, I have always felt bad about it like it was a flaw...
Gaura and a lovely day
International Women's Day Yesterday was an Internationalย Women's Day and for that occasion I have planed to paint and post a photo of a new floral...
‘With Love’ time-lapse video
Time lapse video (2 min) showing creation of 'With Love' watercolor painting. What better way to extend the life of your valentine's bouquet then...
Demonstration in the Pigyard Gallery
Last Saturdayย in the Pigyard Gallery I had the pleasure of giving a full demonstration on floral watercolor painting. I painted harebells, which (as...
‘Waterside’
Great to see an articleย written by Maria Pepper in the local paperย about myself and my upcoming exhibition 'Waterside' Exhibition opening night is...
Why do I paint flowers?
Why I do paint flowers? This is a question I got asked good few times and recently I even asked myself: Why do I love flowers? Why do I...
Watercolor in your living room
I got a request recently from one of my followers to borrow my painting home and to sort of 'try it on' and see if it would look good in their...
Exhibition News
I'm really excited to finally be able to share this news with you. 'Waterside' Is theย name for my upcoming exhibition in Pigyard Gallery in Wexford,...
Glendalough painting
So honoured that my painting of Glendalough was presented to outgoing US Ambassador Kevin F. O Malley at last night's gala in RDS Dublin. It was...
Lillies
Lillies It's 9th of January ย and I like the way things has started for me this year! I have been very busy painting for my new exhibition in The...
New Year!
Hi all and firstly can I wish everyone a happy New year! And seeing it is the time of year for new starts and resultions I thought I might share...
Thinking of trying plein-air painting? Few tips and material list
Tomorrow I'm meeting with some of my students at Ballymoney Beach for bit of plein-air painting. For most of them it is their first outdoor painting...
‘Serenity’ exhibition
Hi guys, I'm happy to finaly be able to show you 12 original pieces from my 'Serenity' exhibition in The Gaslamp Gallery in Gorey, Ireland. The idea...
Watercolour paint along classes
This summer I'm back in Killmurry Nursery for a 3rd year of Paint Along in Watercolour Lessons. Each day is a stand alone lesson and no previous...
River walk
A short video explaining how I got to paint 'River Walk' watercolor. Hope you enjoy a little inside toย my painting adventure.
Art in The Open 2015
I am really excited that I got to bring home Silver Award for participation inย Art in the Open exhibition, over 140 artists took part in this...
Plein-air painting in Courtown
Photos from our little get together to paint Courtown woods in watercolours. Good weather, beautiful setting, where else would you want to...
Watercolour painting – what do you need to start?
Here is the list of watercolor materials that I recommend for beginners: Paper: For sketches and learning how to paint and use brushes i...
‘twenty14’ exhibition in Wells House
'twenty14' ย it is a collection of my very recent paintings, all of them painted in 2014, most of them in second half of the year. It is my...
Sunflowers
Late summer, gardens filled with yellow, red and orange flowers. My favorite is old-fashioned sunflower. And it happens to be the only flower that I...
September
September came so I started walking my daughter to school again. This is the view we get on a cold but sunny September morning. Sorry for blurred...
Painter’s FOMO
Waterford Trip and Painter's FOMO Ok so It's the summer, with a promise of some fine weather so thought to myself why not book a trip to Waterford same as last year? So booked myself into a hotel in Waterford, felt like it would be a good base and the views weren't...
Bloom 2022
Painting Bluebells
Couple of recent bluebell paintings I started this painting on location in the woodland around Kiltennel Church and finished in the studio. There is only small batch of bluebells left. I love the flowers of wild garlic, but does it have to be so invasive? Spring in...
East Cork
East Cork Deciding to take advantage of the double bank holiday i loaded up my gear and headed to the beautiful coastel town of Youghal. It is a truelly beatuiful area and a great place to start my painting adventure. I spent a very enjoyable Thursday there and could...
2021
2021 Normally at this time of the year, I give a little review of the previous year listing the highlights etc but here I sit, pen in hand struggling to come up with anything. It doesn't seem like I have too much to talk about when it comes to 2021. Of course, it was...
waterford Trip
Waterford Trip I made a short painting trip to Waterford last week. I stayed in the city for three days and drove around stopping to take photos and paint.ย Even though I work on my own I really enjoyed that extra solitude and vowed to maked trips like this more often....
Riverchapel Mural
Riverchapel Mural There are times when being an artist feels that extra bit special. And every time I pass my mural in Riverchapel is one of those times. I am so proud of it and delighted how it turned out. A Couple of months ago I was asked to paint a mural in...
St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick's Day Painting It has become a tradition that on St Patrick's Day I paint something green. This is from the photo I took in Courtown Woods and I was meaning to paint it for a long time. I've built this painting up by adding hundreads of small shapes which...
2020
2020 I was never a fan of summing up a year like it's some sort of book I just read and I have to give a book report. New year is just a date like any other and we can't just hit a reset button on Jan 1st as much as we might like to. But if I was to try and sum up...
Under September Skies
Under September Skies During the month of September I decided to create a painting a day. I also made the decision to extend my plein air painting season and so committed to paint all of them outdoors. This was of course with the best of intentions and I stuck with it...