1964 After a grounding and a hidng at the Christian Brothers,I had the good fortune of being sent to the Benedictine school of Glenstal Abbey where the philosophy was,"It is not so much what you do as the spirit with which you do it."
1970 Became a student in Trinity College, Dublin at a time when Dublin tardily caught on to the swinging 60's. Won first prize at the annual Art Society exhibition and then became it's president.
1974 Graduated with an Honours degree in Business Studies and was promptly advised to emigrate if I wanted a job. Withdrew on welfare to the Wicklow countryside to paint full time.
1975 First exhibition in Dublin at the Tom Caldwell Gallery and remember being encouraged at the time by the painter Patrick Scott .
1976 Won an Italian Government scholarship to paint in Florence,
1982 Invited to exhibit paintings at Northeastern University in Boston, in a survey show of Contemporary Irish Painting. While on this trip I was introduced to Rosalind whom I married in 1984, having sold up my catering business in Ireland and moved to New York city.
1985 Had first Solo Exhibition in New York as part of the "East Village" scene at Susan Hannaford-Rose's Beuhlahland. The neighbourhood of our loft biulding in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn was home to many other artists and there was great crosspollination of ideas.
1986 Moved to Los Angeles and began to share a studio in Downtown (skidrow) Los Angeles with a Jamaican artist friend from New York. While painting in this godforsaken neighbourhood, I was also setting up a restaurant in Beverly Hills for some Entertainment Lawyers. The irony was not lost on me.
1988 Exhibited as part of the Los Angeles International Art Fair. Came under the influence of two East Coast artists resident in Santa Fe, David Barbero and Paul Shapiro. Their work and their approach to it has had an enduring influence me, though David died in 2001. Both excuded an intensity and commitment to their craft and were extremely generous in their support of my work.
1989 Was introduced to Renata Beuhler and exhibited in a group show at her Rivernorth gallery in Chicago. Also exhibited in an invitational exhibition sponsored by The Los Angeles Arts Council.
1990 Solo exhibition at Renata Beuhler Gallery, North Wells St. Chicago.
1991 Exhibited at the Wilshire Tower Gallery, Los Angeles and also at the Fullerton County Museum.
1992 Exhibited at the John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Left Los Angeles to return to Ireland via a circuitous route that took in Nepal, India, Thailand, Indonesia and several African countries. Produced hundreds of watercolour sketches on this 18 months journey and became enthralled by the qualities of light and colour in these countries.
1993 Initially settled in the West of Ireland but had no studio. Started a business that took me back to Indonesia several times a year.
1994 Had a "retrospective" show of my American work at the Hallward Gallery in Dublin.
2003 Began the year with the intention of sketching in watercolour the scenes around me in the Wicklow Hills, adapting to the time constrictions I had worked to in the Far East of never spending more than 10 to 20 minutes in rendering the essence of a place at a certain moment.
2004 Renovated a studio and began work a body of work, which later crystalised as "A Year Imagined" promising myself I would strip away the unessential and strive to finish pieces while they stilled retained a clear spontaneity.
2005 Invited to exhibit at an International celebration of Landscape Painting in the Castle d'Este, Ferrara Italy in October and by the International Scientific Committee to take part in the Biennale Art Fair in Florence in December.. His participation at the Florence Biennale was sponsored by the Irish Government Dept. of Arts.
2006 Solo exhibition at Gallery Gora, Sherbrooke West, Montreal, Canada in March. Solo exhibition at The Mill Pond Gallery, Long Grove, Illinois in May. "A Year Imagined". Residency at Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat , September.
2007 Exhibited new work at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York in June. Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, Ireland Solo Exhibition, October.
2008 Solo exhibition at Russborough House, courtesy of the SirAlfred Beit Foundation, Co. Wicklow October through 5th Novemeber
2009 Solo exhibition again at Russborough, courtesy of the Sir Alfred Beit Foundation, Co. Wicklow, September and at The Orangery Gallery, Holland Park London from Mid- October
2010 Three People art and literature auction, Origin Gallery, Dublin, March. (Charity). S.C.O.O.P. Foundation charity auction, Dublin. September.
2011 Studio Exhibition, "Lucent Moments in Linear Time" County Wicklow - by appointment. Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey - October. Donegal Arts Festival - November.
2012 Light- Silence - Time an installation at Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, April/May.