It’s always amazing to see my paintings out in the wild, especially when they have found such a beautiful home in New York. Perry Sayles designed this Chelsea apartment. His work was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
You can see images of the entire space and other projects by Perry Sayles here.
Acrobats and Flowers, one of the large oil on canvases in my upcoming show at John Martin Gallery in London, is in the Financial Times Weekend Edition today! You can find it flicking through the How To Spend It magazine.
I was due to show work I have created throughout 2020 in a new solo exhibition at the John Martin Gallery in London. With the recent tightening of lockdown restrictions in England, the show has been postponed. The gallery is still operating online, and you can find the most up to date information on their website or by subscribing to their newsletter. I am heading back to the studio. If you are interested in a behind-the-scenes look at my studio and creative process, check back here in a few days. I am starting a studio vlog, and the first episode should be up then.
The title „And All You Knew Changed Crazily“ seems so apt for the situation we all find ourselves in at the moment that I only wish I could apply this level of divination when I do my weekly lotto numbers. There are these pipe structures that have appeared in several of my recent paintings. The longer I looked at them the more I began to see them as some sort of map of life. A chance meeting or a quick decision might be the sharp turn that changes the course of a life dramatically. For better or worse. The title captured that idea perfectly and in doing so helped me become fully conscious of it. I don’t usually think too much about …
I’ve wanted to work on etchings for a while so when I got the chance of making some with the help of an excellent printmaker at The Cork Printmakers I jumped on it. Later that that year I brought the etchings to Italy to paint into them. On the way to Italy the gods saw fit to give me a good dose of food poisoning…
Painter Martin Finnin has been making art in Cork since the early 1990s. Now represented by John Martin Gallery in London, his solo show there, Go Go Pitch-Black Night!, was a 2018 summer highlight. He is one of the most enjoyable Irish artists to follow on Instagram …
I am excited to share the invites and catalogue for my new solo exhibition
GO GO PITCH-BLACK NIGHT! opening at
John Martin Gallery, London 7th June 2018
A short talk on the evolution of the new paintings on show at the London Art Fair with JM London gallery. 17 - 21 January 2018 | Stand 22
Painting is a moving thing. Describing that movement with words is difficult. I hope I can capture the major twists and turns of this piece with the help of some studio shots taking over whenever the words conk out. The canvas is Belgian linen. The scent of Belgian linen is up there in my pantheon of all-time favourite smells. It’s the olfactory equivalent of a cockerel crowing in the morning. A little bit of oil paint and it’s gone. I left the canvas untouched for weeks to hold on to that scent and packed it when I left for Italy last summer...
I am delighted to be showing some new work alongside Ade Adesina, Leon Morrocco, Makiko Nakamura, Neale Howells and Olivia Musgrave at this years JM London Summer Exhibition. The exhibition will run 7th - 29th August 2017.
It's a rare treat for me to see my paintings in the wild. I spend so much time sitting with them and then they disappear into the world...
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I hung out with this painting for a long time. It was worked on in three different studios as the world around it went into a spin. I started it in Berlin in 2019, later bringing it to a religious sculptors studio in Ireland. Then Covid chased us to a shed at the bottom of a tiny garden, where I finished it in May 2021. It's a painting about movement, pace, action, and contemplation. The title speaks volumes about the movement of mankind from …