Dreaming Of Light

Oil on Canvas
100cm x 95cm

Soft pinks, abstract florals, and a faint mountain form the backdrop of this layered oil painting, portraying a gentle reflection on endurance, renewal, and the quiet strength found in nature.

Roses and Easter lilies bloom across the landscape, referencing The Rose of Ireland in W. B. Yeats’s early poetry and the traditional lilies symbolising Ireland’s uprisings for independence.

Within the piece are two poetic lines. Seamus Heaney’s call to “walk on air against your better judgement” (The Gravel Walks), and Patrick Kavanagh’s reflection that “every seed buried in darkness is already dreaming of light” (The Great Hunger).

Together, image and word suggest a quiet act of defiance – the kind found in faith, in flowers blooming after hardship, and in hope that persists even when unseen. This is a landscape of inner courage, renewal, and belief in what lies ahead.