Postcards from Summer ‘25

Raw, wild, fingerprint-unique, my offering for Summer 2025 showcases months of delicate hand-crafting, captured (I hope!) in a joyful, curious way. 

Juxtaposing unexpected colourways and the infinitely inspiring Irish landscape, for Summer 25 I wanted to get out to where I spend most of my non-studio time.

As a trail runner, I'm in the Dublin and Wicklow hills often more that I expect to be. Sometimes running the same stretch over and over (I see you Maulin/Djouce).

I spend hours on these hills at a time, often feeling I know them so intimately... and then they change, and change again. A consistent flux, with the seasons, and the years, they bend and stretch, flourish and retreat. Trees fell, gorse blooms, branches and brambles scar and settle. I film them, in the hope of capturing their beauty, "You've got to come here and see it for yourself". Snow, heat, a silting sun, they scar, they wrinkle, the become even more beautiful, even more powerful. Raw, steadfast, wild and determined, a place I feel at the same time like a child, and immortal, and healed. 

Postcards from Summer '25 reminds me that I'm here, now, and that there's life and joy to be had. Summer '25 is ahead of us, full of promise and possibilities. While we change and grow, so too do the forests and hills, reflecting back on us the raw, wild spirit aching to get out, to climb mountains and flail down hills, to feel grass and soil and sand under our feet and ground ourselves to now and forever. 

I hope you enjoy this corner of thought, and the pieces it brought about. Keep minding your local forests, and supporting your traditional crafts.