Observing the landscape is a continuous wonderful experience, where images are constantly recorded and the notion of the feeling, or essence of the landscape, rather than just the visual are conjured up from the familiar. The coastal peninsula of Maugherow, sits proudly on the north west of Sligo and has everything a painter needs to keep the preoccupation of engaging with one’s surroundings alive. The paintings evolve from layering, scraping, removing and reworking until the image reveals itself and is accepted as the resolution of the preconceived. I continue to interpret the land and water around me and can never expect to be finished.
— Paul Colreavy