Meeting of the Waters

About this artwork

This piece captures the fluidity of time and nature, where rivers merge and landscapes shift. Layers of texture and light evoke the transient beauty of water’s journey, inviting contemplation on movement, change, and the ephemeral moments that shape our world. When we speak of ephemerality, we step into an infinite landscape—one where every moment is fleeting, every image is in transition, and everything that lives is ultimately consumed by time. My work is an exploration of this impermanence, capturing the transient beauty of the Irish landscape, where light, mist, and memory intertwine. Through mixed media and encaustic, I layer and obscure, revealing fragments of stories—flashes of golden light on a river’s surface, the fading glow of a path once travelled, a moss-covered tree standing as both witness and participant in the passage of time. Like the ever-changing sky over Killarney National Park, my work shifts between presence and disappearance, solid and fluid, past and present. Having studied printmaking at the Royal College of Art, my approach is deeply rooted in materiality, allowing each piece to evolve organically. Encaustic’s wax layers echo the way we remember—some moments clear, others blurred, altered, or lost. In this way, my art does not seek to preserve the ephemeral, but rather to honor it, embracing the beauty in what is passing, fragile, and ultimately, essential.