The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth.
The Beautiful Earth Commons – community
For me, creation is a daily practice of grounding. I work exclusively with raw, natural textures and fluid watercolours—not to sell as commodities, but to listen to the earth.
Common Ground CoHousing, Wicklow
From 2018 to 2020 I was a member of Common Ground CoHousing in Wicklow. The project was initially based on the LILAC model in Leeds (Low Impact Living Affordable Housing). The idea was to set up a CLT – Community land Trust using a new model of home ownership called MHOS – Mutual Home Ownership Society and engaging a form of governance called Sociocracy. I worked within our Design Circle and facilitated workshops that allows us to co-create our brief, and discuss typologies, lifestyles, dreaming, and backcasting.
- The Daily Watercolour Practice (2020-2021): A year of daily watercolours painted during a time of global lockdown. This deep immersion in colour and isolation became my internal compass, ultimately guiding me to relocate permanently to the Beara Peninsula.
- The Circle Series (2016): A collection of intuitive watercolour studies exploring geometry and organic flow, which funded my global eco-village research through authentic energy exchanges.
- The Beara Outside Bench (2026): A raw, sculptural timber bench hand-crafted for the outdoors, blending practical utility with heavy, natural form.
- Natural Fibre Art (Ongoing): Current explorations in working with local, raw plant and animal fibres to create tactile, grounding wall pieces that bring the texture of the landscape indoors.