Part of The Clare Collection
The Clare Collection is a captivating series of wall-mounted stone reliefs, each carved by hand from Irish limestone sourced in County Galway. Though the material originates just beyond Clare’s northern boundary, it shares a geological lineage with the Burren itself – fossil-rich, layered, and formed under ancient seas. This stone is not merely a surface to be worked but a partner in the storytelling, its natural veining, tonal variation, and embedded fossils echoing the land it helps to depict.
Each piece in the collection is a tactile tribute to the rugged terrain, cultural memory, and quiet drama of the Burren in County Clare. These reliefs are not idealised landscapes but grounded interpretations – shaped by both the enduring features of the region and the subtle, shifting moods of light, weather, and time.
Final Resting Place (Portrait)
This carved limestone relief captures the stark, haunting beauty of the Burren’s karst landscape – a terrain both ancient and alive. Three large boulders, glacial erratics, sit scattered across the scene like sleeping giants, carried here by retreating ice and left to settle into their final resting place.
The natural variations in the stone – fossil patterns, veining, and tonal shifts – are not carved over but revealed and celebrated, echoing the very land depicted. The material becomes the message: layered, weathered, and shaped by deep time.
This piece is a quiet meditation on movement and stillness – on how even the most immense forces leave behind moments of still grace. Here in the Burren, stone is both traveller and witness.
