This is a portfolio of my oil paintings completed from 2000 -2008. Some of these works are available for purchase, so please contact me if you are interested.

   "My experience as a visual artist has constantly been linked with my background in dance, specifically my traditional Irish dance background. The subject of my work has included images of dancers frozen in full flight, visually solidified moments of sheer transcendence and internal focus. These depictions of dancers are meant to portray a very particular world, allowing a small glimpse into an elaborately costumed performance. It has however been more important to me to capture the particularity of their internal world. As a dancer who lives and breathes such an existence, painting these images became an innate transference of self."

  "These works are what I describe as “visual depictions of the cerebral dance experience”. Expressive organically shaped works that rhythmically build themselves onto the canvas in layers, evidencing a history and an apparently indiscriminate method of arrangement. The accumulation of these layers occurs as I react to what colors and shapes previously exist, resulting in a painting method that is in it self analogous to my personal dance experience. By this I am suggesting that a meditative process occurs during construction, and also occurs after the works completion upon its viewing. The eye is sent moving at a very specific pace back and forth across the canvas and through the various stratums of paint. The overall sensibility of the work is one which is corporal, rhythmical and perhaps peculiarly elegant. I am interested in the notion that all elements of life and art have shadows of the past, layers seen and unseen that in some way mark and form their existence. The work we create is a reaction to our history, even if that history is obscured and barely in the reach of our consciousness."