Painting and Photomontage

I did Art at A-level at school and continued painting at college and after for a time. I discovered photomontage only when doing an evening class as a way to get back into art after a long break. I got hooked by the range of creative possibilities achievable just by cutting up pages from colour magazines into new shapes and assembling them into fresh images and concepts using a technique of cardboard templates. They come out like essays, statements, narratives and poems exploring my attitudes to aspects of modern life in multi-coloured, multi-layered images within images within images.

My photomontages have featured in three solo exhibitions in Dublin and group shows in London, Dublin and Drogheda. The paintings appeared in Open exhibitions in London.

This area of activity has been on hold recently. If the paintings were Phase 1 and the photomontages were Phase 2, watch out for Phase 3.