Collaborations

I love to work in collaboration with other artists and it's always so interesting to see what unfolds when we merge our energies, styles and forms. On this page, you can see a selection of recent collaborations. Enjoy!

Síol Tairseach (Seed Portal): A Collaboration with Anandi Sundancer (UK)

Collaboration with the wonderful Morgana Eccleston of Anandi Sundancer: www.anandisundancer.com

“But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here. It is not explainable or even justifiable. It is itself the justifier. We do not make it. If it did not happen to us, we could not imagine it. It includes the world and time as a pregnant woman includes her child whose wrongs she will suffer and forgive. It is in the world but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.”

― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

Star Portal: Collaboration with Photographer Kristin Gray (Ireland)

In this collaboration I drew a mandala on top of one of Kristin's wonderful night skyscapes.
You can see more about Kristin's work on her Facebook Page

The Lost Star by Rabindranath Tagore

When God finished his work of creation
In the vast blue sky
All the stars began to shine.
In the milky way
With this new world in their front
All the gods sat in rows and began to sing,
‘O what joy! What perfection!
A great piece of music, in perfect rhythm -
These planets, this moon and this sun!’

But someone from the assembly
Suddenly told,
‘From this string of lights
A star seems to have fallen down!’
The strings of the lyre snapped
And the music came to a stop,
A quest began to find out
Where the lost star had gone.
Everybody said,
‘It was the star which brightened the heavens most
It was the biggest and the best.’

From then on has been going on
This quest for this star which has been lost
Day and night there is no rest.
Everybody says,
‘Among all the stars
We have got to find out
This particular star.
Without it the entire world has become dark.’
But in the dead of night the silent stars
Smiling silently say among themselves,
‘This search is useless
For all the stars are there!’

Unearthing the Torc: Collaboration with Linda Stockmaster Guinup (USA)

In this collaboration, Linda worked with a digital images of my paintings, taking a section to digitally create a second mandala. I absolutely love what has emerged in the pieces! In the piece above, I can see the Celtic Torc emerge. The Torc or neck ring, was an important piece of Celtic jewelry, and was worn from before 1200 BC to as late as 600 AD. They were worn by both men and women, and are depicted as such in both Classical and Celtic sculptures.

"Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Healer of the Cosmos: Collaboration with Linda Stockmaster Guinup (USA)

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos