I’ve always loved painting; I used to have a portable tin of watercolour paints and ink pens when I was a kid.
I grew up in Greystones and did art classes outside school with Margaret Seaver, a great local artist who really encouraged me. I did a degree in History of Art and ended up working in film in the Art Department. I kept up painting in between films jobs, doing weekend or night classes.
My studio is full of painting notes, sketches or colour swatches stuck all over the walls, art books and old sketchbooks, which are like reference books. I generally start off with sketches from the woods or outside; I might do a few smaller oil sketches on paper and then develop them into paintings on canvas in the studio.This exhibition is part of the Waterford Festival of Food. I wanted to do a series of flower portraits in their natural environment rather than in a stiff, bouquet style.
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