statement

My work is drawing based.  My passion for drawing lies in the compelling urge to capture the things that inherently move me.  I am greatly inspired by nature because it is so completely ordinary, yet extraordinary at the same time. Much of drawing's appeal to me lies in its very constraint, its simplification, the reduction of nature's macrocosm to the black of the charcoal and the white of the paper.  My work is as much about the process, the relationship between the medium and the surface, as it is about the subject. For me, the act of drawing is an end in itself.

bio

born: 1965, Ireland

selected awards/honors

Award of Distinction, 5th Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville, 2014
Honorable Mention, Marks, A National Juried Drawing Exhibition, University of East Stroudsburg, 2013
William D Zahn Memorial Award for Drawing, Salmagundi Club, 2013
Best of Show, Annual Non-Member Graphics & Photography Exhibition, Salmagundi Club 2011

selected group shows

5th Annual Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville,North Carolina, 2014
Marks, A National Juried Drawing Exhibition, University of East Stroudsburg, 2013
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wane, Indiana, 2012
33rd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, 2011