These are some of my sketches. I use all kinds of things to make marks on the page; charcoal, pencils, brushes, feathers, sticks, seaweed, string, lino prints. Some of the drawings are direct sketches of what I see, some are from memory, some are drawn without looking at the page. I work on paper mostly and recently I have enjoyed making my own sketchbooks with handmade paper. Making the sketchbooks in a concertina format has been a most enjoyable and freeing method for me. The practice of drawing regularly in this way has helped me to loosen up with my work in general. These drawings & paintings are as equally important as my other paintings, if not the most important, as this is where my ideas flow .
Killarney Golf Club
Watercolour & pencil on paper.
Howe Strand
Watercolour & Pencil on paper
Loading grain at Ringaskiddy. charcoal on paper
Tennis shoes Pencil on paper 20cm X 15cm
Tomato Plant
Watercolour on paper
Peppers
Watercolour on paper
Lifeboat Training Run
Charcoal on paper
drawing blind
Roche’s Point Headland
Pencil on Paper
drawing blind
Streptacarpus Pencil on Paper A6 Sketchbook
Roches Point Lighthouse
Ink on Paper
50cm x 18cm
Drawing from memory
Tugs turning an Oil Tanker , Cork Harbour
Pencil on paper
10cm x 15cm
Study of my hand
Ink on Paper
24cm x 18cm
Down to the beach for a walk, Weavers Point.
Sketch from memory
Pencil on Paper
10cm x 15cm
My Biniculars Pencil on Paper A6 Sketchbook
The Boat House, Howe Strand
Watercolour & pencil on Paper
24cm x 18cm
The Old Head of Kinsale from Howe Strand
Watercolour & pencil on Paper
50cm x 18cm
Alfie & Honey
pencil on paper
40cm x 30cm
Alfie
30cm x 20cm
pen on paper
Scots Pine
Pencil on Paper
30cm x 41cm
Old Changing Hut , Graball.
Lino Print/Mixed Media on Handmade Paper
12cm x 16cm<br.
From my concertina sketchbook
Coastal Study 1 Ink & Acrylic on Paper 70cm x 20cm from my concertina sketchbook
Coastal Study 2 Ink & Acylic on Paper. 70cm x 20cm from my concertina sketchbook
Old Changing Hut, Graball
Lino Cut /Mixed Media on Paper
36cm x 13cm
from my concertina sketchbook
Streptacarpus Pencil on Paper A6 Sketchbook
Roches Point Lighthouse
Ink on Paper
50cm x 18cm
Drawing from memory
Tugs turning an Oil Tanker , Cork Harbour
Pencil on paper
10cm x 15cm
Study of my hand
Ink on Paper
24cm x 18cm
Down to the beach for a walk, Weavers Point.
Sketch from memory
Pencil on Paper
10cm x 15cm
My Biniculars Pencil on Paper A6 Sketchbook
The Boat House, Howe Strand
Watercolour & pencil on Paper
24cm x 18cm
The Old Head of Kinsale from Howe Strand
Watercolour & pencil on Paper
50cm x 18cm
Alfie & Honey
pencil on paper
40cm x 30cm
Alfie
30cm x 20cm
pen on paper
Scots Pine
Pencil on Paper
30cm x 41cm
Old Changing Hut , Graball.
Lino Print/Mixed Media on Handmade Paper
12cm x 16cm<br.
From my concertina sketchbook
Coastal Study 1 Ink & Acrylic on Paper 70cm x 20cm from my concertina sketchbook
Coastal Study 2 Ink & Acylic on Paper. 70cm x 20cm from my concertina sketchbook
Old Changing Hut, Graball
Lino Cut /Mixed Media on Paper
36cm x 13cm
from my concertina sketchbook