A pair of wolves protect my friend from her nightmares.

Leather belt hand carved with spirals from George Bain’s book of Celtic art.

A combination of different Celtic patterns in a square.

Leather tool roll, custom-made to hold wood carving tools. Hand tooled with spirals inspired by George Bain’s work, it also has hand carved antler buckles.

A portrait in Celtic style of my friend Josep-Maria Ribelles, a gifted Celtic harper From Catalonia.

This piece is hand-pyrographed on a wood slice in the dotwork (pointillism) style and is taken directly from the central circular panel of the Sutton Hoo buckle form the early 7th century. It depicts two intertwined serpents biting the others’ tail.

Inspired by traditional Celtic patterns, i created an endless circular work, symbol of infinity and perpetual beginning.

It is difficult for people in the 21st century, routinely surrounded by colours of every hue, to imagine how the sight of the Book of Durrow would have affected viewers in the late 600s AD. I have attempted to convey some of this wonder by recreating pages in watercolour and ink using modern lightfast organic pigments augmented with raised gesso and 24 carat gold leaf in the manner of later medieval illuminated manuscripts. While this treatment may seem like heresy to some, I argue that my own experience when I first witnessed the transformation that the addition of polished gold brought to the designs was a valuable addition to my understanding of the experiences of 7th century and later early medieval viewers of these books. The addition of polished gold leaf not only adds the experience of ‘the Light of the World’ reflecting out of each page, but it also helps tie the designs more firmly to the Eastern manuscript traditions of Byzantine and Greek Orthodox religious art that ma

Celtic greyhounds pattern. All hand-drawn then scanned into the computer and put together digitally in Adobe Illustrator.

reproduction of folio 138 of the Lindisfarne Book

A3 acrylic on paper, inspired by the story of the children of lir

Just a tribute to the incredible zoomorphic Celtic work of the Book of Kells authors