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PRACTICE
Twenty years of oil painting in Ireland and the UK. Elemental abstracted landscapes, Atlantic light, marshlands and soil, figures at the edge of scale. Deeply attuned to the elements and senses. Travel through Asia and Europe deepened the practice and sharpened the questions. Having worked in the visual arts, TV advertising, print, graphic design and property development/ architecture. Designed and built own residence and studios in North Norfolk:
The move into AI was not a departure — it was the same eye, the same atmosphere first instinct, applied to new territory. The work that followed became Inert, No Signal and Elegy.
Renowned Collector and curator Julia Stoschek has said that AI is reshaping artistic production — that it may change how images are made, but it doesn't replace artistic intention. What remains crucial is the question of who creates images, and with what responsibility.
ON MAKING
I have been making work for twenty years. Landscapes, oil, canvas — the slow accumulation of looking and deciding and looking again. That practice taught me one thing above everything else: the work lives or dies by the quality of intention brought to it. The tool is secondary. The eye is everything.
When I began working with AI image generation I brought that same eye. The same instinct for light, for atmosphere, for the precise emotional weight of a figure in a space. I also brought something the tool cannot supply — a reason to make the work at all. The conceptual frameworks behind Inert, No Signal and Elegy are not generated. They are the product of a specific human life, a specific sensibility, decades of looking at the world and asking what it means, standing still and feeling it.
The AI does not know why the pomegranate sits unfolded on the plate. It does not know that the stone was thrown because beauty failed to arrive. It does not know that a robin matters more than a keen, or that a crushed can explains too much. I know these things. That knowledge is the work.
The prompt is the painting. The eye is mine.
SELECTED PAINTINGS
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