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HOME — A Preview of the New Collection
Every collection begins with a quiet question.
This one began with what is home?
Not just where we live, but what we carry with us, what we recreate, what we long for, and what we build again in unfamiliar places.
Over the past year, I’ve found myself returning to this idea again and again. As an Irish woman living abroad, I’ve thought deeply about how identity travels — how pieces of heritage remain steady even as life shifts around them.
HOME is a trio of modern abstract works rooted in that reflection.
Three paintings.
Three colours.
Three Irish words.
Each piece is layered with Ogham, an early medieval Irish alphabet traditionally carved into stone. Made up of quiet notches and lines arranged along a central stem, Ogham is read from bottom to top. Today it remains one of the most enduring visual symbols of Irish heritage.
I was drawn to its rhythm immediately: the repetition, the structure, the sense of something ancient. In these works, Ogham becomes both language and pattern. It also allows me to introduce this ancient writing system to a whole new audience.
BAILE
(pronounced Bah-lyah)
HOME
This piece was the starting point for the collection.
What does home mean when you are far from it? When you are creating a new one? When you belong, in some way, to more than one place? Is home fixed — or does it move with you?
CRAIC
(pronounced Crack)
FUN · connection · lively conversation
Craic is a word that lives somewhere between laughter, storytelling, music, and the easy closeness of shared time. It’s the atmosphere you feel when a room is warm with conversation.When I try to explain it to those outside Ireland, I often describe the absence of televisions in traditional Irish pubs — the expectation that you will speak, sing, listen, and join in.Craic is presence. Something I miss a lot, and something I carry with me.
MISNEACH
(pronounced Mish-nock)
COURAGE
To leave everything familiar in search of something better requires courage. It always has. Nearly 90 million people around the world claim Irish heritage — many the descendants of those who crossed oceans toward uncertain futures.Just a few miles from my home in Washington, DC stands the White House, designed by Irish architect James Hoban, and inhabited by generations of leaders with Irish roots. This piece is a quiet tribute to that enduring bravery — and a reminder that beginning again is its own form of strength, and takes a lot of courage.
A language that holds memory
Across all three works, Ogham acts as both anchor and thread, connecting past to present.These paintings are deeply personal, but they are also invitations: to reflect on what home means to you, where you find belonging, and what you choose to carry forward.
Original works from the HOME collection will be shipped in March 2026.
