Influences

* Egyptian funerary portraits
* football cards
* Holy well decorations
* Irish 'celebrity' pictures
* Venezuelan rustic art
* African barbershop signs
* religious icons
* surf T-shirts
* crap signs
* those blue photos you get in old shop windows

A lot of my work involves fruitless searches for things that are lost, be they people, underground rivers, stories, buildings or ways of life. Regular motifs include the connecting and merging of maps, old photographs and whiskey-based visions. The beauty of the the mundane. The epiphanies - I call them "Zen Newsflashes" - that are close to home. This is partly due to a desire to make sacred the familiar and also because I am a lazy shite.