Artists Commentary:

Am I Walking into Eternity along Sandymount Strand?

This original watercolour painting is my interpretation of this expression of James Joyce's (1882-1941) spoken by Stephen Dedalus as he wends his way from Dalkey towards Dublin in "Ulysses".

Sandymount Strand is tidal and when the tide goes out very far and one does not look to left or right one gets the feeling of total isolation with only the sky meeting the horizon in the far distance.

In 1904 this whole area was quite bleak and appeared to go on forever.©2002