Oil painter working in Belfast and London. Large-scale portraits, and a series of painted aphorisms.

A large red angular form outlined in heavy black, a notch cut into its left edge and a vertical black seam running down its length, set on a cream ground filled with broad blue hatching. A small red bar in a black rectangle sits at the lower right. The aphorism is handwritten in red across the bottom.

By the Book Oil on board · 2026

Paintings

Writing

The Deep Image

6 July 2026

Part of A Line Through Every Heart. The same seizure that produces art can, swept through a crowd and given an enemy, produce atrocity — and what separates the maker from the murderer is not the proclivity but what moves the hand.