About Me

While growing up I was fascinated by ancient myths and fantastical poetry, especially Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare and William Blake. I was drawn to the illuminated works of Blake and the Book of Kells, where letters and words gleam like jewels. Poems and stories become living art, their blazing letters bursting from the page.

I went on to study software engineering and graphic design, but my love of poetry and myth stayed with me. I spent my spare time researching the legends of my Irish heritage and ancient stories from around the world, and of course developing my own poems.

As my poetry and artwork has matured, the work has moved from expressing my imagination to a deeper mapping of its potentials and its pitfalls. Where once I imagined adventures with elemental spirits, now I recognise their roles as gatekeepers to deeper, more complex levels of the self. Where images were once illustrative, they are now visual paths and symbolic diagrams offering complementary messages and alternative understandings of the lyrics.

My work has grown into an investigation of how and where the imagination and experience can meet. Not in rivalry, not as subject and subjugator, but as partners in a dance. I am exploring how poetry and art can feed experience with wonder, and how the world can temper and sharpen imagination. The works of the writers and artists I love first opened that path for me. Perhaps these works may offer a stepping stone, or a subtle path on your journey through your own rich and hidden depths.

(Artwork Title: The Awakening Giant)

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