At the RHA with my portrait of Bodhi o '

Conner

 

Pastel.

 

 recent film made of me painting plain air on the street. 

https://youtu.be/DQTSsl9MUIw

 I will have a story in the upcoming anthology Meanwhile by soaring penguin press, they are running kick-starter so if you would like to contribute , go to the link below

 https://www.soaringpenguinpress.com

 Couple of recent commissions i did , both oil on canvas.

 recent portrait using wax, oil paint , house hold gloss paint.

 My Uncle Brian wrote the start of a book which i have illustrated , as i was doing the drawings he was battling liver failure and when i completed after a transplant he unfortunately did not survive, a fitting epitaph to someone i loved.

recent pastel work

This is the first page of a comic story i will have published by Soaring Penguin Press in the next few months , i have been learning a lot about black and white rendering, where to place the large areas of black , how to balance the space and the thickness and thinness of the lines.

This is a recent painting  completed on site , it took two years , on and off and was purchased recently by a prominent collector.

Launched my first comic book at the Dublin comic con, its a 54 page illustrated magazine with adaptions from some of the classic Horror and Si Fi writers of the last few years, I have been working on this for a number of years and designed the comic in the same form as the Warren Eerie and Creepy Comics of the 1970's, if you would like to order a copy please go to
https://www.roguecomicsireland.com/roguestore/tales-from-eternal-worlds

Here are some pictures of the event and the comic

 Here is a painting I have in this years Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition Titled Mao running from May the 21 st to August the 10 th

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

https://ulsites.ul.ie/visualarts/current-and-upcoming-events

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,