I invite viewers into the seascapes, landscapes and street scenes of my work using time and emotion as art material. The resulting oil and pastel paintings speak to the preciousness of those limited resources.

Over 40 years of painting, I have developed a perspective of appreciation for the simple things of every day life and the hard working people, growing up the oldest of nine children in Limerick. I have maintained that vantage point as a young mother and art student attending Limerick School of Art & Design in Ireland while making ends meet selling work at the local potato market.  While I was living in America I painted the things I missed most about Ireland, seeing horses and sheep and cows , things like that. I feel blessed that I was able to come home and I live and work in Lahinch County Clare.

There is beauty all around in every day life, in ordinary people going about their daily chores, I can see it as easily in their faces as in their tools, dwellings, and animal helpers. My works feature unlikely champions, from horses to tractors or bales in the field.

My finished works are presented in exhibitions and festivals. Some are held in private collections. I share my labor and process through a series of in-progress images via social media.  Viewers enjoy the imperfect stages of my work as much as the complete compositions.