My work is centred around the beauty in nature. Growing up as a child of Irish migrants in the 1970’s inner city, in a concrete utopia, was the only world I knew.I struggled at school. Nobody really knew anything at that time about dyslexia, so I failed in most subjects, except art, which I absolutely loved. I went on to study art briefly before the academic side became too challenging, and I dropped out of education. Soon after though, I went on to achieve some success in the very visual world of the architectural industry for many years. Finally at the age of 40, I went back to university to fulfil my dream, and to study Fine Art, where my dyslexia was also finally diagnosed.I went onto achieve my honours degree, and subsequently my MA, both in Fine Art. My work was then, and still is, always embedded within the landscape, usually in the form of painting and printmaking. In my formative years, if we were rarely ever fortunate enough to take a holiday, we would visit the rural homeland of my parents, Ireland, where each moment I spent in awe at my surroundings. This feeling is still with me wherever and whenever I am surrounded by the beauty in this precious world, whether in the countryside or the city. Nature is everywhere if you look. These last few years, however, that feeling I had as a child is what I try to portray in my work, and that emotional response I get in Devon and Cornwall formulates my palette.