For eight months of the year i teach life drawing to animation students at pulse college , it is an invigorating and enlightening experience, the talent that i see and the new and growing industry that is animation is a great source for the young people to channel there talent.

Here is a selection of some of the demonstrations i do for the students.

My self portrait is officially part of the National Self portrait Collection of Ireland

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Manitoba, Oil on canvas

My first Comic book cover for Lightning strikes comics , am delighted to have worked on this, looking forward to more projects in this arena.

Delighted to have my portrait of Eamon Morressey excepted for this years Royal Hibernian Academy Annual show, Eamon is a theatre, film and television actor, and is a champion of Flann o Briens writing.

A new piece for 2018 , i have been working on this one for the last 6 months , destroying and redoing previous attempts, i feel i have made some progress , my aim is to move beyond Naturalisim and Impressionisim to a more Expressionistic style..
This is called Dummy. Oil on canvas, 18x 22 inches

Been a productive year, teaching and painting, here are some examples of the years work,