This is, once again, the stretch of water I love so much and keep returning to. This time I was looking to make greater nuance in the...

This is the house which influenced my work so profoundly many years ago. Its windows facing the sea, the light glancing in, the waves...

The daily banality of an activity that we all do, washing, taking a bath. A moment of simplicity and yet fundamentally profound. The...

I dont know why I find umbrellas so fascinating. Perhaps it is the curious geometry that they create, like the wonderful compositions of...

Each time I find myself in Paris, particularly in the winter months, I like to wander through the streets and listen to the hubbub of...

The moving stillness of the river.

The little bathroom in a cottage on the coast of County Antril

As the sea sighs.

I was fifteen years old when Infirst came across this window. It was the turning point in my art, the discovery of the house that sat...

that moment, when dawn breaks and light spills first through a crack in the clouds, then shines in the winter light, the first snow...

The glowing light from shop windows flickering on wet paving, the rain trickling down umbrellas as couples pass intimately bodies close...

I often sit and watch the sun as it slowly sinks towards the sea, the shimmers light glistening on the gently folding waves. This...

I first sketched in this cafe about 20 or 30 years ago, returning regularlysince, the dark and smokey atmosphere creating an ambience of...

I started this painting over twenty years ago! It’s fundamentally about light and the way the light plays games across a table, filtered...

This is a subject I return to frequently, the little paths that lead down to the beach, the light filtered through the treas and...

I first worked on this theme a few years ago, creating a slightly smaller painting of « Raspberries ». It’s a subject I have found...

https://jamesmackeown.sumupstore.com/ The end of summer when the light becomes soft and dim, a hint of autumn in the air. And the sea...

The origin for this painting was a study made in a hotel in venice, itself a study for a painting done a few years ago. I then stayed in...

I dont know how often I have stood and watched the sea, its gentle sighing with each falling wave, the breathing in, pulling the sand and...

Recently I have been walking along a canal in the centre of Brittany where the waters flow gently in a mystical motion that is so very...