The work is shaped by a long-standing relationship with the coast a place of return, familiarity and rhythm throughout my life. Time spent by the sea became a way of measuring stillness, movement and change, particularly during periods when other structures felt uncertain. Making has always felt instinctive, somewhere I could return to without needing to explain myself.

Growing up, summers were spent in British Bay, County Wicklow, where my family has returned year after year. The coastline became grounding and quietly constant, and that rhythm continues to inform the work. The paintings repeatedly return to ideas of erosion, horizon lines, movement and restraint, exploring the tension between control and release.

Returning to painting later on felt like an opportunity to work more freely and intuitively, without expectation. Since then, the practice has become increasingly process-led and meditative, allowing surfaces to build, shift and soften over time.

Through texture, light and material presence, the work reflects the changing nature of the sea: never still, yet never chaotic. Each piece develops slowly through layering, repetition and reduction, shaped as much by pause and atmosphere as by gesture itself.

The works are intended to exist quietly within space, offering a sense of stillness, familiarity and reflection.