Since 2002
'The tree paintings are originally inspired by driving through Ireland during the winter of my mother’s death looking at trees so poignant like line drawings on the dusk sky.
In a sense focusing on the poignancy of the trees was a way to describe the continuing pull and ebb of family life – leaving children to drive to a sick parent and necessarily been drawn back and forth between the parent and the young family, a universal experience.
The trees remained with me, I continued painting them not only as the winter line drawings on the sky but also in their various colourful dresses throughout the year.'
SW 2018