In 1997 I was walking back to college in Barcelona after dropping my son off at school. I was waiting to cross the road, thinking about art, as you do, when everything became very bright, and I realised there was no separation between my body and the world around me. I remember looking around, wondering if anyone else was aware of this change, then crossing the street and staring at my feet intently, trying to understand that they were the same as the zebra crossing I was walking across. It was very exciting, then faded away. Perception is subjective and interactive; we are touched by what we see, creating the world as it creates us.

Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland; I am a writer with a dyslexic mind so I make art; early work of the 1990s consisted of large, abstract paintings that expressed a presence with epic implications; with the conceptualisation of my work in the late 1990s I explored representation and painting; a site-specific approach through the 2000s involved cultural perceptions and the expanded field; a return to painting during the 2010s focused on the fragmentation of images; while recent developments since 2020 include written, textile and digital work in an attempt to follow and describe the effect post-representational technological realities has on our thinking or 'the wind of thought' as Hannah Arendt decribes it in The Life of the Mind (1977).