De Composition is an ongoing  exploration of two very different landscapes that I have spent a great deal of time in over the last 2 years, as part of ongoing artistic residencies, the Inagh Valley in Connemara ( Interface Arts) and Moonagheela National Park in West Virginia ( Appalacia) as part of my residencies with the Pocahontas Opera House.

Both diametrically opposite in terms of growth and flourish,  one a thriving forest and the other homogeneous  landscape of spruce pine. The symbolism of verdant life, and the sense of pervasive death is what is rich for me, but more than this, within in the Inagh landscape, I have been captivated by what for me, is an evident visual cycle of life. Tree's at every stage of decomposition, wood, spores and bog..what is emerging from my video/photographic and written work, is a theme and comment on the cyclical nature of life and death, that it is continous, there is no distinct end or beginning. 

This body of work has been supported by the Interface Artists in Residency Scheme 2024. and a residency with the Pocahontas Opera House in West Virginia 2024

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