Boats rest on the still water of Bullock Harbour in Dalkey, County Dublin, in this watercolour painting. Their pale hulls and dark reflections break up the blue surface, with the harbour wall and open sea beyond. This was one of...

This picturesque 1920's style French cafe, situated on Dublin's Wicklow Street, with it's striking orange awning just had to be painted. Le Petit Parisien is also a bakery and patisserie. The owners say 'What we set out to create is a...

A vivid acrylic portrait painting featuring the G.P.O. (General Post Office) in O'Connell Street, Dublin city centre on a damp rainy evening as people scurry about trying to stay dry, the warm glowing lights of the buildings reflected on the...

This is a limited edition print of one of my original acrylic paintings. The impressionistic style depicts a couple walking in a stunning field of poppies that seems to sweep towards an old wooden fence. The summer rain shower has...

This Italian landscape painting originally featured a grapevine in the foreground but after living with it for a while I decided to paint over that part and make it a poppyfield instead and I was happy with the result! Painted...

An acrylic painting on canvas of O'Donoghues Pub  on Suffolk Street, Dublin city centre, a bustling bar offering music, food and drink with a lively atmosphere as is evidenced in this vibrant painting. For more about the venue itself visit...

Acrylic cityscape featuring a cyclist and a couple waiting for the traffic to pass so they can cross the street in front of Trinity in College Green, Dublin. A muted palette of blues and mauves.

A tiny photograph of this café in a magazine was the starting point for this acrylic painting. I was instantly drawn to the way the light caught the umbrellas and awning, making them stand out against the shaded parts of...

Watercolour print of the East Pier and Lighthouse, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. William Bligh, of 'The Bounty' fame, mapped Dublin Bay in the early 1800's and proposed a refuge harbour be built at Dún Laoghaire. Construction of the East Pier began...

A painting of a sunny afternoon in the popular St Stephens Green park, right in the centre of Dublin City. A great place to get away from the noise and traffic and sit for a while taking in the atmosphere,...

Kehoe's Pub  on South Anne Street, Dublin is a typical Victorian type bar with its snugs and mahogany partitions but it actually dates back to the early 1800's making it one of the oldest pubs in Dublin being over two hundred years...

This is an acrylic cityscape painting focussing on the always busy crossing in front of Trinity College, Dublin. This part of College Green is dominated by the grand front facade of the impressive college, founded by Elizabeth 1st in the...

A painting featuring the Halfpenny Bridge, Dublin looking towards the Merchants Arch on the southside of the River Liffey bathed in the orange sodium glow of the city centre lights. Umbrellas and reflections abound on this canvas. 

A print of an oil painting of the fabulous Gibneys Bar in Malahide village, North County Dublin.  A little bit of the pubs' history : When the Gibney family first arrived here on the 6th of December 1937, they were entering...

A colourful painting of Hartigans Pub on Leeson Street, just around the corner from St Stephen's Green, Dublin, a very popular haunt popular for after work get togethers with the office crowd and watching some rugby. Known by the locals...

A watercolour painting on Arches rag paper of Malahide Castle, which lies about 9 miles north from Dublin city. The Malahide estate began in 1185, when Richard Talbot, a knight who accompanied Henry II to Ireland in 1174, was granted the...

An acrylic landscape painting of a romantic couple taking a walk under a shady umbrella along the Grand Canal, Dublin, the pathway a slice of peace and solitude in the middle of the busy city. In the background is Huband...

Painting featuring a romantic couple walking past the flower stalls on Grafton Street, revisiting the corner where they met for their first date.

An acrylic painting of Hartigans of Leeson Street, just a stones throw from St Stephen's Green, Dublin, popular for after work drinks with the office crowd. An old fashioned bar that probably dates back to the early 1700's, selling decent...

The Millenium Bridge which spans the river Liffey in Dublin doesn't really inspire me to paint it but it affords a great view of The Halfpenny Bridge and is quiet enough that you can stop and take in the vista...

Another painting from Lucca, Tuscany, this time an evening scene from a typical Italian 'piazza' which comes to life in the evening time as people come out for a walk, or 'passegiata', or to sit awhile in the square and people-watch...

A cityscape painting using a cool palette of O'Connell Bridge, looking towards the O'Connell Monument, an a busy rainy evening in Dublin.

This painting of a side view of the Cafe en Seine, Dawson Street, Dublin  at late evening time with the lights blazing and busy with people out for the night.  The candy striped awnings are a wonderful touch and the...

An acrylic painting of Manor House, Manor Kilbride, Wicklow. I t was a commission for Stacie Passon director of the spooky mystery film  'We have always lived in the Castle'  part of which was filmed there. The film is based on...

A watercolour painting of a guitarist playing for his supper in the middle of Grafton Street, Dublin city centre, a common sight and sound on this busy shopping street.  Busking was once banned but was reinstated with a few rules,...

A young couple make their way along O’Connell Street after an afternoon of shopping, with the GPO behind them and the evening light beginning to fade. Warm yellows and oranges from the windows brighten the wet pavement against the cooler...

A family have brought some scraps of bread to the edge of the lake in Stephens Green .... it's an age old Dublin tradition that will always carry on even, if it's not very healthy for the ducks! Sometimes my...

Pedestrians, umbrellas and traffic crowd the junction in this acrylic painting looking towards South William Street, Dublin. Light spills from the surrounding buildings, with orange awnings and bright windows reflected across the blue street. I went all out with colour...

A painting of Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings NFL Amercian football fans congregating outside arguably Dublins' most famous pub - the Temple Bar. An historic occasion in Irish and NFL football history - the first NFL game to be held...

Blues and oranges dominate in this vivid acrylic painting of South William Street, Dublin looking past the cafes and pubs, towards the crossroads with Exchequer and Wicklow streets.

This acrylic painting shows Henry Street around Christmas, with the candy-striped stalls of the December traders just visible among the crowds. I wanted to capture that familiar bustle as people gather gifts for under the tree, pick up tinsel and...

The Forty Foot in Sandycove is quiet on this fresh autumn day, with very few bathers willing to take the plunge into the cold sea. In this watercolour painting, blue water moves around the rocks beneath a broad, cloud-filled sky....

In this lovely painting, we see a couple standing outside the Honan Church in Cork, Ireland on a bright, sunny day. The Honan Chapel is on the grounds of University College Cork and named after the wealthy Isabella Honan who...

I painted Apollo House after bumping into an old friend who was involved with the Home Sweet Home campaign. In December 2016, the group occupied the vacant Dublin office building to provide shelter for homeless people and draw attention to...

A watercolour painting of O'Neills Pub, in Dublin,  which has been a licensed premises for nearly 300 years. The inside is snugs, nooks and crannies where traditional Irish music is played seven nights a week. The pub is in the...

A young couple with an umbrella meet up under the shelter of the Merchant's Arch by the Halfpenny Bridge, Dublin. Acrylic painting on stretched canvas.

In this acrylic landscape painting two people stroll through the magnificent Gap of Dunloe, the distant reeks faded in the heat haze, as the gravel trail meanders towards the horizon.

A sunny afternoon in September is the setting for this Sandymount painting, and the usual strollers out and about, taking some exercise and fresh air.

I always loved the shopfront of Hodges and Figgis bookstore on Dawson Street, Dublin city centre, and was delighted a while ago to get a commission to do a painting of it . There are so few store fronts with...

Barberstown Castle in Straffan is not far from where I live and is a familiar wedding venue. The original acrylic painting was a commission, although this print version differs a little from that work. Of the views I considered, this...

An acrylic painting of a couple huddled together under an umbrella making their way past the flower stall on Dublins Grafton Street.

This acrylic followed on from an earlier bluebell painting, but this time I added a couple walking in the distance beneath an umbrella. I wanted to suggest a quiet, romantic walk among these delicate flowers, with the orange umbrella standing...

An acrylic painting on canvas of Sheehans pub, Chatham Street, Dublin, and it's distinctive Beamish Stout mural.  One of Dublin’s little gems, Sheehan’s is one of Dublin’s oldest family run Traditional Irish Pubs. Run by the Sheehan Family for the...

This acrylic was one of two paintings of Ashford Castle commissioned for an American wedding. The bride and groom wanted to give them as gifts to their respective parents, which made them lovely pieces to work on. I explored the...

A vivd acrylic painting, in a mainly blue and purple palette, depicting a moment on a busy Grafton Street, Dublin, on a rainy afternoon full of umbrellas, reflections and people.

Eight four storey houses comprise this Georgian Terrace, with Dublin's consistently priciest house, No.1 Sorrento House, among them. They were built around the early 1800's and were meant to be a line of 22 houses in total, but construction was...

A painting with a view from inside Stephens Green, Dublin on another rainy Irish evening with the Fusiliers Arch taking centre stage. The Stephens Green Centre, a shopping mall, is still open for business and acts like a beacon for...

A painting of the Bath Pub in Sandymount, Dublin, a favourite haunt for sports and concert fans because of it's proximity to the Aviva Stadium.