Triptych. Mixed media on canvas
Watercolour, Innendispersion , on canvas.
300x120cm 2020
Boat made of translucent porcelain represents the vulnerability of sea transportation in an engulfing transitory space,from known position to unknown destination.
Moreover ,a boat for living, that survives, is agile and a boat of hope.
Vessel size Length 15cm Height 3cm Width 3cm
Mont Blanc White Porcelain
Heddle Oars 16cm
Compass base Acrylic glass dimension 30cm
Oars are adapted Heddles from Avoca Hand Weavers Ireland.Limited edition.
Diptych. Mixed media.
Oil colour, watercolour, salt on canvas.
200x100cm 2024
Boat made of translucent porcelain represents the vulnerability of sea transportation in an engulfing transitory space,from known position to unknown destination.
Moreover ,a boat for living, that survives, is agile and a boat of hope.
Vessel size Length 15cm Height 3cm Width 3cm
Mont Blanc White Porcelain
Heddle Oars 16cm
Compass base Acrylic glass dimension 30cm
Oars are adapted Heddles from Avoca Hand Weavers Ireland.Limited edition.
mixed media on canvas 200 x100cm. 2022
pigment, plaster ,oil colour, watercolour, innendispersion.
Boat made of translucent porcelain represents the vulnerability of sea transportation in an engulfing transitory space,from known position to unknown destination.
Moreover ,a boat for living, that survives, is agile and a boat of hope.
Vessel size Length 15cm Height 3cm Width 3cm
Mont Blanc White Porcelain
Heddle Oars 16cm
Compass base Acrylic glass dimension 30cm
Oars are adapted Heddles from Avoca Hand Weavers Ireland.Limited edition.
200 x 100cm 2022.
mixed media, innendispersion , oil colour ,on canvas.
Mixed media on canvas 100x200cm 2022
wax, pigment, plaster ,oil colour, watercolour, innendispersion, acrylic.
Adam Nicolson’s superb and highly recommended book The Seabird’s Cry, concentrates on the lives and habits of 10 particular sea birds. The writing swivels between the forensic and the poetic, and presents research in a way that is not just comprehensible but compelling.
A favourite is the description of the Sooty Albatross.
“When the wind is not with them they can use it to pursue their course, lift them 50-60feet above the sea, then allow gravity to glide them downwards to the direction they need to go. A dynamic soaring that is a constant, rhythmic alteration, the slow metronomic pulse of an ocean voyager’s life…”.
Diptych mixed media on canvas 300x140cm 2015-17
Life in Limbo
Suspending your own breath.What is revealed in the presence of nature. A void and equilibrium that can be wiped out. Being in suspension,but not a standstill. Like a tight rope walker who hesitates, risks the fall. None the less is tempted to appreciate leviation, like waiting a sort of inner retreat. Schweben - Jahresthema St.Polten Austria 2021
Diptych mixed media - Innendispersion, oil colour, stain on canvas. 150x300cm 2019
Asylum Harbour was the initial name give to Dun Laoghaire harbour in Dublin Bay Ireland when construction began in 1842. A Harbour is what a safe sanctuary represents –a place of security and solidity. The spatial quality is the strongest aspect of the harbour .
From that sanctuary a notional journey, beginning from between the two lighthouses at the mouth of Dun Laoghaire harbour into the unrevealed waters of the Bay. Or as the ancients referred to it as Ultima Thule- the limit of any journey that one can know and conquer ones reality- Dublin Bay.
collection of the artist
Mixed media on canvas 300x120cm 2020
pigment, oil colour, watercolour, innendispersion,
mixed media,innendispersion,oil colour,acrylic on canvas
120x100cm 2021 Private Collection Ireland
A Harbour is what a safe sanctuary represents –a place of security and solidity.The spatial quality is the strongest aspect of the harbour
The harbour is formed by its two huge arms and sheer totality , corrals a great volume of sea water.Harbours have had a number of transformations over time , that have not just changed their physicality, but currently ,their purpose and meaning.
Mixed media on canvas 426x122cm 1997-2007 Luan Gallery Athlone Ireland 2015
Materials used include- Stockholm tar ,wax, pigment,oil colour, watercolour, acrylic ,ash, Shellac, old charts.
Triptych mixed media on canvas 300x120cm 2020/21
Betwixt & Between Exhibition Baden Kunstverein &
Parallel Art Fair Vienna 2021. Special thanks to Leo O’Kelly
Tír na Nóg - song title
Mixed media on canvas
300x140cm 2013-2014
wax polish, pigment, plaster ,oil colour, watercolour, innendispersion, acrylic
INFINITE WIDENESS
Between Frontiers and Times.The ocean is a vast area that crosses time zones and frontiers. There can be a stillness, but there’s always a danger it’s about to erupt into conflict. Ships represent the endless human quest. Journey’s undertaken on water can disregard the dangers and have destructive consequences.
To find and rescue those in peril on this infinite wideness can seem impossible despite advances in technology in navigation and location.
Triptych mixed media on canvas 300x120cm 2016-17
Indespersion, watercolour, stockholm tar on canvas 160 x 100cm 2018/19
Triptych mixed media-innendispersion,watercolour,roadsalt,water glass 280x100cm 2009-11
A Triptych 240 x 100cm
Mixed media, road salt, emulsion, oil colour, on canvas
Each panel 80x100cm 2008-210
Droichead Arts Centre Ireland 2017
Doldrums and fathoms
'An té a Mbíonn long aige,geibheann sé cóir uair éigin' (He who has a boat eventually finds a breeze.) Making a passage through the doldrums under sail, the experience which every sailor-man ought to have once in his lifetime, so that he may learn to be patient and appreciate some of the difficulties with which his forefathers had to contend. But once is enough.
Mixed media on canvas 150x140 2013-14
wax, pigment, plaster ,oil colour, watercolour, innendispersion, acrylic.
Mixed media on canvas 120x340cm 2020-21
The great voyager. The legacy of a few can sometimes be hard to grasp completely.To do justice for all their lifetime of endeavours is an impossible task. And so be it in the case of the late Tim Severin 1940-2020. In Nov 2023 there will be a special gathering of crew (those still with us) from a number of Tim’s expeditions in London, to remember and celebrate his life and accomplishments.
M/media on canvas 160x100cm 2008-17 Galerie Nothburga Innsbruck 2017
Mixed media,oil,bitcumen/ rescue blanket foil on canvas 2021.
"Fire at Sea", a title taken from Gianfranco Rosi's film.
A silent observation that has influenced this series of smaller works (a selection from 13 pieces various sizes).
mixed media,oil,wax,paper,oil-can,twine,on canvas.
122x 274cm 1998-2002
The Church and its Spire (not realised yet)
An exhibition proposal submitted to the Church of St.Peter exhibition space Wiener Neustadt Lower Austria 2013 by Leonard Sheil (Irl) and Norbert Maringer (Aus)
Irish proverbs are full of phrases about the power of silence.Cancerous Irish culture of saying nothing and hiding behind institutions. The scapegoating that has continued has not helped any healing process .The real measure of these crimes may never be known,but only try to be imagined.
Mixed media on canvas 122x274 1998-2002
Peoples Republic of Amnesia.On the 33rd anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square Beijing, China still denies its own citizens the facts of what happened. An entire generation of are in danger of its own ignorance, even in a connected time like this.