My work focuses on three overlapping themes: Immigration, Nationalism, & Catholicism.
Mother Ireland, 2006
Vertigo, 1998
Having spent the first four years of my life in a Mother and Baby Home I grew up in Edgeworthstown,
County Longford, before emigrating to England in 1959. My paintings are autobiographical, in so far as
they can be considered bulletins or accounts from memory.
Please contact my curator, John O’Hora, should you require further information.
After the Auburn Dance, 1995
After the Auburn Dance, 1995
Catholicism and The Free State
Gifts of The Free State, 2023
The Backward Glance, 1994
Leaving Ireland, 1996
The Dividing Sea, 2012
Far from Land, 2015
Leaving, 2001
The Crossing, 1995
The Wake, 1993
Disembarcation, 1997
Approaching Euston, 2003
Hollyhead-London, 2003
The Free State into which I was born in 1944, was characterized by certain narratives and manoeuvers. Narratives = Catholicism.
Manoeuvers = Immigration.
The Bedsitter, 2003
Nurses and Navvies, 2012
On Euston Road, 2012
The Gender Escalator, 2004
More women left Ireland for England in the 1950s than men, they assimilated better, inter-married and
were upwardly mobile. Hence the symbolism of the escalator.
Navvies and Nurses, 2020
The NHS Ward, 2014
The Emigrant 1, 2009
The King of Camden Town, 2004
Early morning Camden Town, 2007
Half Worlds, 1997
The Crown, 2008
The Gresham, 2018
OTHER HALF WORLDS
Nuns Digging, 2023
The Law of the Heart, 2018
The Innocent, 2018
THEOCRACY INSTALLATION, Dublin, 2023
In The Free State, 2023
In The Free State, with detail 1 & 2
This work testifies representations of my own lived experience.
As a young Irishman I experienced this ‘State’ firsthand, and to the end I see myself not only as a painter but within the canvas of my paintings.
The Orphan Factory, 2009
Whatever you say, say Nothing, 2023
Visiting my mother’s resting place in Milwaukee, 2018.
My mother’s maiden-name was Helen Power. My father’s was Thomas Lockhart.
I never got to know or meet either of them.
At home with one of my book covers.
My paintings have featured on many book covers.
EXHIBITING AND SHOWING
Canavan in Carrick, 2022
Irish Cultural Centre, 2021
Presidential Award of Recognition, 2018
Former Irish Ambassador to Britain,
Dan Mulholland, 2014
Awarded Freeman of Cork City, 2017
THEOCRACY opening at
The United Arts Club, Dublin, 2023
