2018-19
And Their World of 
Far and Near Things

Egg/oil tempera
on canvas
160 x 240 cms

‘This painting portrays the artist and his
immediate family. Although the work
contains references to Diego Velázquez’s
Las Meninas, the initial stimulus was
a response to the exhibition Vermeer and
The Masters of Genre Painting
at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2017.
What began as a contemporary painting of
a young woman reading developed into a
larger work. This led to a complex
composition exploring themes of time,
space, transience, portraiture, art and
social media, within a familiar everyday
setting.’