Acrylic and mixed media on cradled deep edge board

When it comes to painting those wild places, it’s rarely about capturing them as they are. It’s about distilling the experience. Landscape painting, especially in a more abstract style, becomes a way of translating all those feelings: the sting of cold air, the crunch of earth underfoot, the way light flickers across wet moss. You might start with a path or a horizon line, but soon it turns into movement, emotion, memory.

Mark making plays a huge role in that—scratches, scribbles, soft washes of colour—each one becomes a trace of a place, a moment. And colour… well, the Irish landscape isn’t just green. It’s full of rust and gold, deep blues, luminous greys, and wild bursts of pink when the sun dips low.