When I moved from Blackheath in London to Antrim in Northern Ireland (with my wife the writer Patricia Craig), everything felt so strange and unaccustomed that the first large painting I began work on was called "Landing on the Moon". Part of its subject was the house itself, which was built by Charles Lanyon c. 1839, and it includes a depiction of P.C. looking out of the window, and some of the objects and artefacts that came with us.
The current RUA painting titled "Patricia Craig, Bibliophile of Belfast. Reading Paul Celan" is in a way a mirror image of the first painting - the same room, but looking the other way, and completed 25 years later. It represents a record of my life, in a sense, between those two significant dates, Anything else relevant to its evolution is in the painting - just look! The first painting, "Landing on the Moon" has been shown at three important galleries, Clotworthy, the Crescent Arts Centre and the Naughton Gallery at Queen's.