statement

My work is drawing based. I am essentially self-taught. My passion for drawing is all-consuming and driven by the compelling urge to portray the places and things that move me. I work primarily in charcoal and carbon, both of which combined yield a wonderful range of blacks and grays that vary in density and transparency, as much as in tonality. 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. For me, the act of drawing is an end in itself.

bio

born: 1965, Ireland

selected awards/honors

Honorable Mention, 35th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, 2015
Award of Distinction, 5th Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville, 2014
Honorable Mention, 'Marks', Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, 2013
'Best of Show' Salmagundi Club Annual Non-Member Photography & Graphics Exhibition, 2011

selected publications

Manifest International Drawing Annual, Volume 9, Manifest Gallery, Ohio, 2014

selected group shows

Bradley University, 35th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, 2015
Northpark University, "Regarding the Sublime', Invitational Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 2014
S Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina, 5th Annual Drawing Discourse, Asheville, North Carolina, 2014
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2012