Gallery

Gallery

Please enjoy browsing through my gallery showcasing the full range of my mosaic artwork to date. From 3D pieces inspired by nature, peatland habitats, landscapes, coasts, geology to tiny moss and lichen details, mini landscapes and flowers.

Here you will find up close and immersive textural pieces using a wide variety of recycled, found and foraged materials conveying the beauty and joy of noticing and slowing down.

PEATLAND MOSS AND LICHEN INSPIRED

Hags to riches

Hags to riches - Triptych - 'Riches'

Restored vivid red spaghnum moss

Mossy sea coal

Spaghnum restoring

Restoring spaghnum moss - ponding water capture

Hags to riches - Triptych - 'Eroding peat hag

Peat being eroded from eroded hag

Lichen Scotland

Celebrating the vivid lichen found on rocks all over Scotland

Slate Isles

Easdale slate inspired landscape

Slate Intricacy

Celebrating the minerology of a piece of Easdale slate

Lichen Study on Easdale Slate

Using recucled materials to convey yellow lichen and the minerals of the slate

font of Life for the 21st Century, Eileen Molach, Single Track road

Eilean Molach

Eilean Molach / Ellen's Isle

Inspired by Lady of the Lake and the 500th Anniversary of Sir Walter Scott

Single track Road

Inspired by the wild flowers and cycling up single track road up past the airport on the Isle of Coll

Mossy Mound

Inspired by a beautiful vivid mound of moss - spaghnum magellicum

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Moss Detail

Close up image from Font of Life for 21st Century

Font of Life for the 21st Century - A Carbon Sink

Celebrating the Life cycle of spaghnum formation, peat formation and restoration and the importance for life. A deeper celebration of the constellations and that we all come from dust

Font of Life for the 21st Century - 1.2m high x 1m wide. 2022

Font of Life for the 21st Century - A Carbon Sink

Font of Life for the 21st Century - A Carbon Sink

Detail of side elevation - showing cells and roots , decaying spaghnum and peat formation

Olive Stack Gallery Residency Listowel Ireland March 2025

Ireland Residency 2025 - Dingle Rocks

Dingle rocks and hand pulled filati

Ballybunnion Cliffs

Inspired by the caves, colours of rock and lichens on the cliffs

Ring of Kerry

Rock Cliffs and imagined sea pinks

Pebble Spit - name tba

Rocks from x and hand pulled filati

Ballybunnion Coast

Aerial view of the beaches, castle and stacks

Burren Moss

Burren Limestone pavement and moss

Kilkee

Cliffs - tbc

Galway Ivy and moss

100 Days Project Scotland 2022 – Flowers

MAGNOLIA

DOG ROSE

NODDING ONION

CIRSIUM

AGAPANTHUS

HONEYSUCKLE

LEYCESTERA

RUDBECKIA

Birds – Cedar Waxwing – tbc

CEDAR WAXWING

CEDAR WAXWING

NODDING ONION

CIRSIUM

AGAPANTHUS

HONEYSUCKLE

LEYCESTERA

RUDBECKIA