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The Beach Party
Oil on Canvas.
84cm x 60cm
“Joie de Vivre”! This painting is based on a beach I have seen in Portugal and I have set it in the 1920’s: the scene is entirely imagined. I am of course aware that life was a hard struggle for many back then, but most of the world was enjoying peace after the horrors of the First World War and it was also a very glamourous age. This is what I wanted to convey something of, and bring to life.
The Linn of Dee
Oil on Canvas 62cm x 46cm
An imagined scene set in the 1920’s at a beautiful and real location in the Highlands of Scotland. The idea of going for a quick dip mostly on an impulse is an attractive one to me and I have tried to catch that ‘in the moment’ feel.
White Park Bay
Oil on Canvas
70cm x 50cm Framed
This is one of some very beautiful sandy beaches on the North Antrim coast. With the Atlantic breaking on its shore it offers an invigorating opportunity for a swim made even more attractive with the sun shining. I have depicted some brave young ladies going for a skinny dip!
Full Throttle on Magilligan
Oil on Canvas
77cm x 52cm
Another amazing and very long beautiful beach on the North coast of Ireland. This time there are some young women putting a magnificent vintage Bentley through its paces. Are they racing against the train? (There is actually a railway line there)
The Return of the Temeraire
Oil on Canvas
92cm x 62cm Framed
This was inspired by an evening on a beach near Herne Bay on the North coast in Kent. J M W Turner’s wonderful painting of the ‘Fighting Temeraire’ was based on a scene he himself witnessed further up the Kent coast. This Temeraire would have been almost a hundred years later in the First World War and its return here, probably to Chatham, is completely imagined. The other ship is an escorting destroyer.
The Bathing Party
Oil on Canvas
60cm x 42cm
This beach is at Cushendun on the Antrim coast road and these ladies, in the 1920’s, are preparing to take to the water. Northern Ireland is blessed with some very beautiful scenery including beaches, little ports, glens, woodlands, hills and the occasional mountain. The water at the seaside is always clean, clear and fresh.
The Green Room
Oil on Canvas
64cm x 49cm Framed
A young ballerina sits apparently alone in a green room. What is going through her mind? Is she nervous? Is she sad? Is she worrying? Or is she thinking some things through? She seems pensive, but why?
The Emigree
Oil on Canvas
68cm x 49cm Framed
An entirely imagined scene with an unknown nineteenth century working class woman leaving her home country in hopes of a new life in another part of the world. What drove her to do this? What and who is she leaving behind? What will she be going to? Is she safe? Will she make it? How desperate is she that she is driven to this option? Her homeland is under a dark cloud but she looks forward to a brighter future.
Dorothy
Oil on Canvas
59cm x 42cm
The scenery is a ‘pastiche’ of parts of Donegal. The young woman is of the 1930’s. It is a moment of joyful serenity and the ’feel’ is light and airy. The woman is based on my mother.
The Warspite at Jutland 1916
Oil on Canvas
92cm x 61cm
"Windy Corner” was the name given to the spot where advance sections of the British Fleet had to do a tight turn to escape the jaws of the German Fleet in the early stages of the Battle of Jutland. The truly magnificent Warspite’s rudder jammed right there and she drew the concentrated fire from seven German dreadnoughts until she fixed her rudder. She took a terrible hammering but kept delivering powerful broadside after broadside and escaped, going on to achieve unequalled battleship glory!
Woman at a Window
Oil on Canvas
60cm x 50cm Framed
The figure in this painting derives from a life drawing study I did some years ago. The painting is otherwise entirely from the imagination in every aspect and the viewer is invited to interpret the image and create their own narrative.
Hot Day
Oil on Canvas
63cm x 46cm Framed
Set in the 1920’s this is a completely imagined scene: I find great pleasure and freedom in working from my imagination. Once again the viewer is invited to create their own narrative to the visual image.
The Man from Donegal
Oil on Canvas
40cm x 40cm
The man is my own Father who passed away many years ago. The image is based on photos and one in particular – taken up the old GPO Tower in 1965. He spent his early life on a farm in Donegal but went on from there to successfully manage several large and prestigious hotels and exclusive clubs in London.
The Battle of North Cape 1943
The Battle of North Cape 1943
Oil on Board- 122cm x92cm
The Royal Navy lured the big, fast and powerful German Battlecruiser Scharnhorst into a carefully arranged trap. This ship had been menacing Russian convoys for some time in the far North of Scandinavia; it was Arctic night in a squall in mid Winter when the trap was sprung. Involving a convoy, British cruisers, destroyers and crucially a modern Battleship, the Scharnhorst was engaged and finally sunk after enduring frightful punishment. I painted my divorce out of me in this painting.
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