Grateful to have been invited to show at this year’s main exhibition by curator and galleriest Paul McKenna. The Boyle Arts Festival will be on in Boyle, County Roscommon from July 18th – August 5th.

Join me for opening night on May 20th, 2019 to see my little self-portrait and loads of other beautiful work. This piece is framed in a lovely stained walnut float frame.

Always wonderful to see that little red dot. This time it was already there to greet me when I arrived an hour late to the opening.

The Santa Maria Della Salute is known for being octagonal, which I couldn’t really see from my position, but the way the sun was falling over the dome and how the atmosphere made everything dusty with pink was plenty captivating for me.

Excited to hear last week that this piece has been selected to exhibit in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual 2019. I’m hoping to make it over to London for the opening again. Last year’s was such a great time.

Visit my Medium page to learn about the inspiration behind this painting:

Mining the Hippocampus, oils on birch panel, 16x16in

Last week, I shared my first post on Medium.com. Until I figure out how to automatically link the accounts, here’s a good ol’ fashioned link: Art and Endings -Understanding figurative art through the lens of transience.