Murals

A selection of studio paintings that are created in tandem with my large public murals, and both influence and are influenced by that area of my work. Any new paintings that are available for sale can be found on my shop.

Image Courtesy of Neal Campbell, www.campbellphotography.co.uk

The Box, Monkstown

November 2023, Monkstown. Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc. for Monkstown Boxing Club

Good Vibrations, Great Victoria Street, Belfast

October 2023, Belfast, Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc. and funded by Linen Quarter BID and Belfast City Council.
(Left to Right: Rob Hilken, Alana McDowell, Mathew Knight, Zippy)

JOY (Alphabetti Spaghetti)

September 2023, Shankill Mission, Belfast. Commissioned by Vault Artist Studios and funded by Belfast City Council.
Portraits by Emic.

Killeshandra, Land of Lakes

November 2022, Killeshandra, Commissioned by Cavan County Council

Junction boxes

March 2022, Belfast, Commissioned by Belfast City Council

Chrysanthemums

March 2022, Banbridge, Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc for Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

Ode to Joy

October 2021, Vault Artist Studios

Splat!

October 2021, Newtownards, Commissioned by Seedhead Arts for Ards & North Down Borough Council.

From Dawn ’til Dusk

September 2021, Belfast. Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc for Belfast One BID.

Flax

August 2021, Limavady. Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc and Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council.

Dulse & Yellowman

August 2021, Ballycastle. Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc and Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council.

Salmon fishing

August 2021, Coleraine. Commissioned by Daisy Chain Inc and Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council.

When life gives you lemons

July 2021, Cavan. Commissioned by Cavan Arts Festival

Bank Square

April 2021, Bank Square, Belfast. Commissioned by Belfast City Council

Machine

September 2020, Hit the North Street Art Festival, Belfast

Image courtesy of Debbie Muldoon, Instagram

Light and Heat

Samuel Neilson played an integral role in the revolutionary politics of the 1790s, primarily as the founding editor of the Northern Star newspaper, described by Walter Cox in 1811 as ‘… a planet of light and heat; its influences were commensurate with its circulation and its circulation was only restricted by the ocean. It warmed the cold; it animated the feeble; it cheered the afflicted; it stimulated the intrepid and instructed all. Pernicious dogmas, false reasonings, slavish superstitions and gothic prejudices, which broke the people into different sects and marshalled them against each other, disappeared before it.’ The Northern Star was published in Wilson’s Court Entry.

July 2020, Wilson’s Court Entry, Belfast
Gallery images Courtesy of Neal Campbell, www.campbellphotography.co.uk

Spicy Hot Cash

Found on a National Lottery scratch card, this phrase was used to tempt people to gamble. The food reference works as a tool to make gambling more accessible, but the meaning becomes ambiguous when the direct mechanism for gambling is removed from the slogan.

May 2019, Hit the North Street Art Festival, Belfast

Luck of the Irish

The shamrock was originally associated with St Patrick and the holy trinity, but more recently it has an association with luck and gambling that has taken over.