Focusing on finding the beauty and artistic value in everyday landscape and daily life. Elevating the mundane to extraordinarily status. My work is a tribute to the fading fleeting glances that we often pass by, showing that there is a deep sense of beauty and drama in our everyday.

“For the last several years I have been fascinated with the landscape of my home county. I was born and raised in Monaghan and while I’ve lived large portions of my life outside of it, I find myself being drawn back. The entire county is criss-crossed with narrow roads that never seem to end; they are always meandering, always leading you to some small unseen part of the world.

It has taken me quite some time to understand why I continually return to painting these roads After all, I have travelled these for many years, in my childhood and then in raising my family, travelling the same roads but each time as a different person.

They have seen me at every stage, at every point in my life, be it school runs, coffee with friends, weddings, funerals, and everything in between. I have been on them in good times and in bad and all those times where nothing happened. They are the everyday constant that above all the large moments in life can hold the most beauty. Seeing the light dapple through the leaves can remind you of what an extreme privilege it is to be.

I think it’s why I am so drawn to paint them; I love the visual drama they hold, the unlimited potential of a road without end. The contrast of light and dark, of colour and tone and the ability to use it all to draw attention to a single focal point. For me, the process of layering and shifting the paint on the canvas is as important as the subject matter. It is this mixture of craft and subject that can truly make a painting a piece of art. Every brush stroke, every layer exists to enhance the relationship between itself and the rest of the painting. And all of it coming together to create something that is so much more than the sum of its parts.”  Kate Beagan