Winter’s End

My wall in East Belfast that looks onto CS Lewis Square. Jadis, the White Witch’s reign is soon to end with the return of Aslan who will breathe new life into Narnia. She is accompanied by two of her Secret Police, Maugrim and Vardan.
Thank you to @eastsidepship and @seedheadarts for facilitating this project.
I loved creating it!

Special shout out to Neil, Tony and Steve at Belfast Sash Windows for being so accommodating while I painted their workshop. Thanks for the wall Noel.

I’ve opened a Zippi account for prints, check it out here

You can purchase my artwork on various items too =)

Here are some of my recent digital pieces that you can buy

Bespoke gym artwork for Evolve Health & Performance in Antrim

My contribution to the St. Patrick’s weekend All City Bernard Shaw Jam

Modern Muse

My contribution to the Southern Regional College Lurgan Urban Art Jam

‘Tyger, Tyger…’ – Belfast, N.I.

My wall for the Hit The North Street Art Festival as part of Culture Night Belfast 2017.

Loved creating this image, which reflects a sort of inner strength. Thanks to Becks BeKreativ, CAP and Seedhead Arts for making this happen.

‘Úna Bhán’ – Boyle, Co.Roscommon

Úna Bhán is a legendary character associated with the Boyle area. Her father banished her lover from their lands and she died of a broken heart. To learn more follow the link

Thank you to Brian Kelly, Boyle Town Committee,  Roscommon LEADER, Foróige, Brothers of Charity and Roscommon Co.Co. for making this happen.

Quick paint in Belfast for Septembers ‘Late Night Art’

Collaboration that was the end result of a very enjoyable mentoring scheme through Arts For All with my mentee Amy Devlin who has now gone on to study in NCAD. Really looking forward to following her career (character – me, bees – Amy) xx

‘The Thrill Is Gone’

Portrait of B.B. King for An Poc Fada, Monaghan.

‘Mother Nature’

Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo.

This is my contribution to a project organised by Sligo LEADER Partnership Co. with Tubbercurry Tidy Towns, involving young people from the No Name! Club, Foróige and the L.O.L. Club

‘Facets’

A2 watercolour with printed collage element. My piece for the All Together Human – Protest Art Exhibit – Dublin.

‘Night’

This is a section of a wall I painted with Novice in S13 in Belfast.

‘Eagle’

Live painting at Girdwood Community Hub, Belfast. March ’17

‘Michael Budd, Blacksmith’

Really interesting commissioned mural for Michael Budd, Castlebaldwin, Co.Sligo.

Atlas – Affinity – Album Cover Artwork.

Collaboration with my brother Nooneboy

‘Sadb’

Painted live in McGarrigles, Sligo Town, while my bro Nooneboy laid down some tasty beats.

The Morrigan

Watercolour and acrylic on paper.

Galaxy Paws Series – Hare

Live painting at the Newcastle Community Cinema, NI.

Loki – Fanart

The Winter Soldier – Fanart

Queenie – Fanart

Captain America – Fanart

Lady From The Train Sketch

Queen Medb

Finally managed to get down to Drogheda for the Bridge Jam this year! Big shout out to Rask for the spot.

The Hunt

Painted on Kent St, Belfast. Part of the Hit The North streetart festival run by the wonderful Seedhead Arts and C.A.P.

Scathach

Painted this firece Scottish warrior woman in Edinburgh back in August. In great company with Elph and Sole.

Dripping In Gold

Painted during the Evolve Phat Paint Jam #5 in the Bernard Shaw back in September. Weather stayed good for once! Cheers Ene.

Really fun job for An Poc Fada in Monaghan to advertise the local Blues Festival.

Detail from some additional work for the wonderful folk of Cannings House & Garden in Sligo.

An Táin

Delighted to have been commissioned by Sligo Tidy Towns once more to add some colour to this hoarding in Cranmore. Many thanks to Nola, and also to Jerry and Cathy who were a big help getting this completed!

Revamp of this trailer for the Cuban Sandwich Factory in Belfast, tastiest cubanos around!

Quick digital rendering of a sketch I liked

‘The World Is Our Playground’

Wonderful project to be involved in. This piece is painted just off the playground of Currie Primary school in Belfast, on a building shared with Mountcollyer Youth Club. Big thanks to Phil for the support and to Ashleigh. I really enjoyed working on this and was delighted that they were happy to let me run with the idea.

‘Giants Of The Game’ City Hall-Hôtel de Ville-Paris.

I was so happy to be involved with Visit Belfast’s site in Paris during the Euros promoting a VR experience of Belfast and Northern Ireland. We painted the entire container with various attractions found in NI, alongside George Best. Titanic Belfast, Hands Across The Divide, Mournes Mountains, Dunluce Castle, Giants Causeway, Samson & Goliath, The Big Fish.

Thanks to Gerry, Visit Belfast, McCadden and ALD.

‘No Laughing Matter’

So happy with my collaboration with brand Insolence.  We held a launch night for pre-orders in April and the shirts went out to all those who supported us last month. They look awesome and I can’t wait to see the fruits of their next collaboration, they were a joy to work with xx

Hanging the ‘No Laughing Matter’ Opening Night Exhibition

‘Fire’

Acrylic On Canvas – Available for purchase

‘On Silent Wings’

Lots of fun painting this wall in Lavery’s Belfast recently. Cheers to Rona and the staff for taking good care of me

‘Welcome To The Jungle’

Private Commission via Evolve Urban Art in Dublin.

‘Caledonia Calling’

Live painting at the Ulster Museum.

Collaboration with the awesome lady that is ARTISTA while she was visitng Belfast. Thanks to The Sunflower for the space!

Some sections of walls painted in the amazing Hammer YC, Belfast.

Some live paintings created while working with T-13

‘Tickle Me Pink’

‘Dragonfly’

‘The Internet’

‘Pink’ – Painted at the UV Arts Winter Painting Jam at the Playhouse in Derry – Jan ’16

I got a new sketchpad and blue pencil leads so went mad filling it up with sketches that I wanted to draw just for the fun of it.

Gambit  – Daredevil – The Winter Soldier – Storm (Marvel)

Death (Sandman) – Modern Merida (Brave) – Delirium (Sandman) – Zero (Vampire Knight)

The Winter Soldier (Marvel) – Loki (Marvel) – Rey (Star Wars) – Magneto, gender swap (Marvel)

‘Galaxy Paws’

Painted as part of Culture Night 2015, Belfast.

‘No Laughing Matter’

Painted on the Peace Line, Belfast

‘Gráinne’

..and her invisibility cloak.

A Celtic character with ties to Sligo. Painted live during Sligo Design Week.

‘Lydz’

Painted during the fantastic Release the Pressure jam in Derry.

‘Party All Night Owl’

Commission for The Fly bar, Belfast.

‘Come Away, O Human Child..’

Commission for Sligo County Childcare Committee.

‘Minerva’

Painted in T-13 Belfast.

‘Gatekeeper’

Painted as part of Culture Night Belfast – Hit The North.

‘Turn It Up’

Commission for The Fly bar, Belfast.

‘Her Long Hair Black As A Raven’

…well it used to be.

Painted at the always awesome Whitewash XIII

UV live drawing at Pygmalion, Dublin.

My contribution to the very awesome All City Tivoli Jam in Dublin this year. A modern take on The Morrigan, a Celtic Deity who could take the form of a wolf, cow, eel and crow.

I was delighted to be asked by Groundworks NI to create a mural in the new Community Garden to link up with the existing Hicks 54 mural. Couldn’t have finished it without the help of my partner in crime Gerry.  Newtownards Rd in Belfast

Pirate Queen

Flame On! Section of the Parkour set up in T-13

Commissioned (very long) mural at Sydenham Train Station in Belfast, celebrating Belfast’s Industrial history and ties to the local area. Arranged by Palmerston Residence Association, Translink, BCC and PCSP.

Another piece for Groundworks NI in a different Community Garden on Clandeboye St. Unusual wall, very fun to paint. The mural was designed with the direction and input of the local S.O.S. (Survivors of Suicide) group.

Landscape commission for The Coach in Banbridge for their beer garden.

Wall commissioned by Sligo Tidy Towns. I wanted to create a mural that celebrated the Sligo connection that Bram Stoker has to the town and it’s possible influence on writing Dracula.

Custom paint job for Jump NI – Parkour specialists.

Two recent watercolour paintings involving layering up paper.

An earlier take on The Morrigan, painted Culture Night Belfast 2014

”Autumn’ and ‘Winter’ from Nubia Youth Club

‘Lean On Me’ – private commissioned watercolour

“I’m Inside”

This is the piece I completed last week in Letterkenny for First Fortnight and Mental Health Ireland, working with local Letterkenny group Create-A-Link.

This excerpt from First Fortnight’s website sums up the goal of this project:

“We believe the arts allow us to create a space where people can talk about mental health issues in a non-scripted manner. Once that conversation has begun, we hope this will then help to change people’s perceptions about an issue that affects us all with one in four of us set to experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives.”

The piece itself was based on prompts and ideas that the Create-A-Link group had discussed, which I then visually interpreted. ‘Wearing a Mask’ was a strong theme that resonated. In my piece the character is wearing a mask, but it’s coming off, being lifted slightly off of her face with the tie loose. In the background she is surrounded be a canine-like figure (inspired by the sometimes naming of depression as the ‘black dog’) made up of ‘I’m fine.’ ‘I’m inside.’ ‘Talk to me.’ ‘I want to be better.’

Huge thanks to Gerry, don’t think I could have done it without him. Big shout out to Bill, Peadar, Eithne, Dermy, Aidan, Wissam, Ruth’s Pharmacy, The mighty scaffold producing council men and the Create-A-Link group who kept us fuelled with tea and sandwiches on what turned out to be a very cold and wet couple of days

This time of year can be particularly hard on people. For more information on these fantastic groups and the great work they are doing to create awareness and support for mental health issues see below:

http://firstfortnight.ie/about/

http://www.rte.ie/tv/wouldyoubelieve/beyondwords.html