special projects

swahili safari

2025: A series of six pieces depicting safari animals from the plains of Kenya’s Maasai Mara and Amboseli. The focus is on their Swahili names, which dominate the hushed radio communications between Kenyan rangers while travelling on a guided safari at dawn.

SIMBA (Lion)
SIMBA (Lion)
Pundamilia (Zebra)
PUNDAMILIA (Zebra)
Artistic representation featuring a leopard's face on the left and a calligraphic poem about the leopard on a dark blue background.
CHUI (Leopard)
A decorative artwork featuring the text 'Ode to a Flamingo - Laura Leiser,' with expressive, handwritten style and soft pink watercolor background. The piece highlights a poetic description of a flamingo in a unique stance, inviting appreciation.
HEROE (Flamingo)
A decorative infographic about elephants, featuring information in multiple languages, including English, showcasing their characteristics, behaviors, and cultural significance.
TEMBO (Elephant)
Artistic illustration of a giraffe with the text 'Head high in the sky standing proud on stilted legs animal of grace' above it. The word 'TWIGA' prominently displayed, along with variations of the word 'giraffe' in different languages below.
TWIGA (Giraffe)


IN THE IVY WHEN I LEAVE

2021: 24 x calligraphy lines and illustrations for a book on essays on the work of poet, Seamus Heaney, during his time in Glanmore, County Wicklow

  • In The Ivy When I Leave
  • The Blackbird of Glanmore
  • Aeneid Book VI
  • Song
  • Blackberry-Picking
  • The Wishing Tree
  • Sweeney Astray
  • The Underground
  • The Skylight
  • The Given Note
  • The Forge
  • The Cot
  • Saint Kevin and the Blackbird
  • Digging
  • Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces
  • Requiem for the Croppies
  • Postscript
  • Lightenings viii
  • Maighdean Mara
  • Keeping Going
  • In Time
  • In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
  • Glanmore Sonnet vii
  • Field of Vision
  • Elegy