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25/03/2026

starting work on my research project funded by the Society of Antiquaires Scotland to reconstruct an exact replica of the Tarbat vellum working yard tank.

The experiment could reveal where the unique 9th century relic was made

15/12/2025

This is the last week for posting out prints in time for Christmas for UK addresses, for the Irish Republic its today!
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02/12/2025

The Fianna in the Cave. 'An Fheinn anns an Uaimh'.

This piece depicts the legend of the Fianna warriors under a curse from a witch who turned herself into a deer in order to get them to pursue her. They are still trapped in a cave half asleep until the horn 'dord fian' is blown a third time to bring them fully awake. The cave is said to be near Inverness.

On 3 layers of deerkskin vellum with traditional pigments and acrylics for the layer with the cave and the witch.

This original is for sale DM for details.

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01/12/2025

The Birth of Ossian, from 2022, done as part of a collaboration with Gaelic Scholar Dr. Michael Newton. It now has a good home in Andover USA.

29/11/2025

Making the Book of Kells exactly as the original was done around the year 800AD

29/11/2025

Making the Book of Kells one folio at a time (or sometimes jumping to an easier one for a break)

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28/11/2025

This is the Teachd Fhinn Mhic Cumhaill piece before I added the smoke from the fire, as I was using real fire and smoke I got this scan as insurance incase I burnt the whole thing and lost nearly 400 hrs work

28/11/2025

the messy end of the business, seaweed burn, deboning cattle feet in winter, skinning time calves, cooking lead...... and thats why vellum is expensive (the colouring in is fun)

28/11/2025

seaweed burning, deboning cattle feet in winter, calf skinning time, cooking lead etc............... and thats why manuscripts are expensive, the colouring in bit is quite good fun.

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28/11/2025

My new piece for the Og(h)am project

Its a graffiti version of Táin Bó Cúailnge, the cattle raid of cooley. shown are Cu Chullainn in his battle frenzy throwing the ringed stone from the plain of Brega into the pool and Fedelm the seer predicting the outcome of the battle between Ulster and Connaght.

It functions as an ogham wordsearch, every animal in the piece is in the Tain, each animals name is written in ogham in either Scots Gaelic or Irish and in the reflection in English (mostly, it was very difficult!) There are some other relevantr words and phrases as well.

Part of the og(h)am project. A collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University and Glasgow University

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27/11/2025

This piece is on vellum but painted with graffiti markers to make an insular calligraffiti script. It was much faster to work on so it is much cheaper than my usual traditional work. £350 will buy this, thats a zero less than most of my original work!

The text is the satire of King Breas of the Tuatha De Dannan who was cursed by a bard for not providing hospitality. The illuminated letters match what was denied in each line, food, milk, fire etc...

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