My practice centres on abstracted landscape, shaped by a lifelong connection to the mountains, sea, and open horizons of the south-east coast of Ireland. Working across painting, print, and mixed media, from intimate watercolour monoprints to larger-scale oil and acrylic canvases. I explore landscape as both physical environment and emotional space. My work is informed by the quiet, weathered mountain ranges and coastal expanses that have formed the backdrop to my life and studio practice.

I am particularly drawn to places that feel open, elemental, and barely marked by human presence. These spaces carry a sense of stillness and possibility that I try to translate through layered mark-making, texture, and shifts of light. The paintings aim to create immersive visual fields that invite reflection and a felt experience of landscape as refuge.

My recent work is increasingly research-led. I am developing an exploration of Jay Appleton’s prospect–refuge theory. The idea that humans are instinctively drawn to environments offering both expansive outlook and protective shelter, alongside an interest in deep mapping as a way of understanding place through layered memory, ecology, and lived experience. Through this evolving framework, I am investigating how painted landscape can hold psychological as well as geographic space, and how viewers might encounter a sense of grounding, distance, and belonging within the work.