In Nighttime Paintings I imagine a space where edges blur and thresholds become porous. It is a space where borders feel permeable, where time passes strangely, and where distinctions – between human and animal, dream and reality, the self and the rest of the world – dissolve.
Informed by medieval painting, the figures exist untethered to time and place, drifting between pictorial and symbolic. I believe my medium and my content have a reciprocal relationship. I paint with ink, pigment, dye, and mostly lots and lots of water. Water erodes the rigidity of paint, conjuring a world of soft edges and vulnerability; this approach dissolves the distinction between outside and inside, me and you, this world and the other-worldly.
I’m drawn to moments that showcase the fragility, mutability, and resilience of the human form.

Swimmer, ink and watercolour on paper

Ink on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

Ink and pigment on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

Ink on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

Ink on canvas, 23 x 30 cm

Ink on canvas, 15 x 20 cm

Ink on canvas, 23 x 30 cm

Ink, watercolour and pigment on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

NCAD Works exhibition 2023, installation view

Installation detail, collected drawings