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Dublin based Irish abstract artist

26/05/2026

Driving through the Icefields Parkway felt so quiet, even with the road beneath us. Everything seemed larger than it should be, the mountains, the sky, the cold, the distance. There was a feeling of being so small, like nature telling us we are tiny. The small road sign stayed with me. It was such an ordinary human object in the middle of all that vastness. It felt almost fragile against the landscape around it. This painting came from that feeling: moving through a place that felt ancient, and indifferent..you can view more work from my time in Canada- Link in Bio

12/05/2026

Cathedral Rising
60 x 90cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2026
This painting came from a winter visit to Lake Louise, but it is less about recording the place and more about holding what the place did to me.
The day itself was grey and quiet, but what stayed with me was the scale, stillness, and emotional weight of the mountain. It felt architectural, almost devotional. It felt like a cathedral rising out of snow, water, and memory.
In this work I was trying to let colour carry feeling rather than description. The warm face of the mountain became a kind of inner light against the coldness of the lake and sky: a place where awe, grief, gratitude, and memory could sit together.
Part of my series At the Edge of Place, exploring landscape, memory, absence, and the emotional charge of place.

Virtual Exhibition link in bio…

02/05/2026

Welcome to Alberta
I think of this painting as the prologue to At the Edge of Place, my online exhibition of Canadian landscape paintings.
It began with a fleeting moment in Alberta: yellow light across snow, a roadside picnic table, and that strange feeling of arriving somewhere that stays with you long after you leave.
This piece is less about recording a place exactly and more about memory, movement, weather, and the emotional pull of landscape.

A giclée print of Welcome to Alberta will be available soon.
View the online exhibition through the link in my bio.

23/03/2026

This painting took a long time to find itself. Through all the reworking, it became less about describing a figure and more about allowing one to emerge through the surface.
What stayed important to me was the tension between presence and damage, and the sense that parts of the painting needed to remain half-buried rather than fully explained.

Enquiries welcome by DM.

Still untitled, but close now to where it needed to arrive.

16/02/2026

Get • The Icon Factory has worked with local artists for over a decade, promoting their talent, creativity, and uniqueness.

One of these outstanding artists is Anthony Carey. Together with his daughter, Becca Carey, he created a brilliantly humorous book (as you can probably tell from the cover) “Not very useful at all!”.

A longtime favourite and great seller at The Icon Factory, this book offers a hilarious “guide” to using Dublin slang in the most “professional” way possible.

Gas craic altogether.
“Ask My Arse and Other Useful Phrases” is available now in our book selection.

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08/10/2025

Debajo Del Mar
60 × 60 cm | Mixed media on canvas
Made during a time of healing and love in Mexico, it holds the weight of what was felt, not seen.
Layers built up and scraped back.
Memory. Stillness. Movement.

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