Public
While working in a Family Resource Centre and a Youth Centre, I was asked to do some paintings to be displayed in public spaces-including hand painted cut out signs, that I made with members of the Men’s Shed, as well as paintings for display indoors.
Eat a Rainbow
The youth centre ran a nutrition programme in partnership with Healthy Ireland- to teach teenagers, who did cookery lessons in their kitchen, the importance of eating healthily. The centre received funding to do up the kitchen-which had been painted in white emulsion throughout. The funding enabled them to add an electric blue colour to an accent wall and I was asked to create a two-panel canvas based on the theme ‘Eat a Rainbow’
Medium: acrylic on two canvas panels
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Painted Panels
While working in a youth centre, I was asked to create a series of painted panels for the reception area-which had a plain white wall. I picked out 16 important Rights of the Child to represent. Each circle has my own illustrated interpretation of these rights for children.
Medium: acrylic on board
Hand Painted Signs with the Men’s Shed
These signs were made for the outside wall of a house used for child and youth services. The director of the centre asked me and the Men’s Shed to create a caterpillar, cocoon and butterfly. They were made from weather treated marine plywood. Members of the Men’s Shed cut out the signs and I painted them.
Medium: acrylic on marine plywood
