Every Breaking Wave featured in Celtic Life International Magazine

I’m delighted to have my art part of the Summer 2026 issue of Celtic Life International, a magazine that has spent more than three decades covering Irish, Scottish and Welsh culture and history for readers across North America. The feature runs across three pages: a profile, a spread on Ocean Echoes, and a set of images from the studio.

The profile starts where the work started for me, at Carnsore Point on the Wexford coast, watching the waves change with the light and the weather as a child growing up in Kilkenny. The years since have covered a lot of ground: Argentina, Australia, across Asia, the Caribbean, Austria, and eventually back to Dublin. Each coastline left something behind. The tropical years carry a warmth and clarity that still shows up in my lighter pieces. The Irish Atlantic work is different: more muted, more layered, closer to home.

The magazine also covers Ocean Echoes, the sound element I build into each piece. A collector holds a phone to the artwork and a recording opens, no app or setup needed. Celtic Life paired the spread with a recording I took at Tullan Strand in County Donegal, alongside the coastlines usually associated with the collection: Tramore, Greystones, Bundoran and Carnsore Point.

Celtic Life's readership is spread mostly across the US and Canada, which overlaps closely with where a lot of my collectors already are. It's a good place for people who grew up on this coastline, or wish they had, to come across the work.

The full piece is on page 69 of the Summer 2026 edition of Celtic Life International, in print and at celticlifeintl.com. More on Ocean Echoes, including sample recordings from the Irish coast, is at everybreakingwave.ie.