He began to make a name for himself in Ireland, where he has had thirteen Solo Exhibitions of his paintings since 1994.

Sotheby’s of New Bond Street in London have sold nine of his paintings at auction since 2004, and a further two sales of his paintings will take place at Sotheby’s in September and December 2006. In recent years he has started to paint famous Dublin landscapes, and the first of these paintings will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in their 20th Century British and Irish Auction to be held at Olympia London in September 2006.

He is the only living Irish illustrator to have sold his paintings at Sotheby’s headquarters on New Bond Street. His paintings have appeared in many national and international newspapers, including The London Times and The Wall Street Journal. His artwork has also appeared on television on RTE1, RTE2, TV3, BBC1, and most recently in the BBC2 documentary “Scots On Speed”.

His paintings have been bought by Fingal County Council, Dublin Corporation, and South Dublin County Council, where his work is on view in eleven Dublin Libraries.

He is also a professional full-time book illustrator, and has illustrated fifteen books since 1995, including for Penguin Putnam Books in the US, and Simon & Schuster. He is currently commissioned to illustrate eight classic Ladybird fairytales, funded by the Irish government, and published in the Irish language. Four of these titles are already published including Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast. Prints of the artist’s paintings are sold in Easons on O’ Connell Street, The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, and The Dublin Writer’s Museum. The artist works and lives in Ireland.