About my work

I made the first 3 drawings in May while at a month’s residency at the Ballinglen Art Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland. The other images are discarded books, prepared with acrylic, graphite, mixed media and collage and wall hung.

My medium of choice is graphite — a simple pencil, plus watercolor and acrylic on paper, or on discarded books which I’ve prepared, and some collage. Call it mixed media. I do my drawing and thinking in a notebook and then work larger.

I am fascinated by abandoned objects, things once loved, and well used, that got left outside, rained on, then thrown away. In a society that mass-produces so much stuff and emphasiz