"I spend my winter mornings walking over the landscape of the Burren. Large surface rocks, called ‘Glacial Erratics’, catch my eye. I follow them, like an array of markers, making a course over the limestone pavements, pausing to feel their newfound lichen skins.

I stop to consider their presence, and see them as a momentary assortment, lingering here temporarily, after being carried by the fluxes of past glaciers. Their current inertia, and grey self containment, belie the motion that once brought them here.

They seem to sit lightly now, as if propped on their own self-made pedestals, while the soft day-to-day mineral erosions of wind, and interspersing rain play out in the fresh happenings around them. I wonder as to their potential, perhaps as a reminder that some things shouldn’t be controlled, understood or neatly organized."

I started painting by questioning what I knew of rocks as being heavy, inert, ancient and lifeless, forgoing their likeness to capture their essence. Drawing inspiration from the erratics as a perceivable image, I would flip the canvas reversing the orientation to displace the initial image. In this way, I began to capture the erratics glacial displacement through the ephemeral motion. A sense of dichotomy was built in the painting, that rocks could be simultaneously stationary yet seemingly fleeting, or indestructible, yet delicate like a butterfly wing.