2019
And Their World of
Far and Near Things

Egg/oil tempera on canvas
160 x 240 cm

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.