Trees & Landscapes
These pictures are the heart of my work: trees painted in black and red on a white background.
They are influenced by Japanese Art - though I’m not trying to copy Japanese techniques.
I love the simplicity and sense of space the colour limitation creates.
Though I didn’t realise it when I started, I now think that another love of mine appears in these pictures - woodcut (or woodblock) prints. There’s something about the way the line appears on the paper that reminds me of woodcuts.
If I ever have time, space and money, I’m going to invest in a small printing press.
Fierce Tree
I did this fast and furiously. Sometimes nature is wild.
Ink on Paper
24cm x 32cm
Guide Price €75 - €190
A Solid Old Fella
This one feels like an old and trusty friend - around before I was born and (I hope) long after I’m gone.
He works to a different sense of time than I do.
Ink on Handmade Paper
30cm x 21cm
Mounted to 30cm x 42cm
Guide Price €85 - €195
Branch
When I’m out walking I sometimes see a branch silhouetted against the sun. It always makes me pause. I hope this does the same for you.
Ink on Paper
24cm x 32cm
Guide Price €85 - €190
Adolescence
This one still has some growing to do. I hope it has centuries to do it in.
Ink on Paper
20cm x 29cm
Guide Price €80 - €190
Between Me & The Mountains
Standing there, the near and the far merged. I became one with exactly where I was.
Is there any better feeling than full presence?
Ink on Paper
20cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €85 - €195
Grey Mountains
I love how the dark greys merge with the black. Like a landscape at dawn or dusk.
Ink on Paper
14.5cm x 20.5cm
Mounted to 21cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €65 - €145
Spring
A delicate tree sending out its first blossom of the year - not entirely convinced winter’s past.
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
Price Guide: €65 - €165
A Murder
Seeing corvids on winter-bare trees is so archetypal.
Perhaps I’ve read too many gothic novels….
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
Price Guide: €65 - €145
Springtime
There’s something about the structure of leaves that fascinates me. They bring such character to a tree
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €85 - €195
At Noon
A single bird, watching the sun.
Do you even wonder what they’re thinking as they sit up there?
I do.
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €85 - €195
Skeleton Tree
I love the emptiness of single branches reaching towards the sun.
Often there are birds, big or small, surveying the land for threat or food.
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €85 - €195
Exuberance
So many branches all fighting to reach the light, knitting together to make an impassable wall.
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €85 - €195
Three Blades of Grass
Three blades of grass and a washed out summer sun (and a rare splash of green).
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Price Guide: €85 - €195