I often like to show things happening in a picture which would be impossible in “real life”. For instance, you might be scanning across a landscape through a window but you’re still looking down to see it as a bird would : from above.

Also, it’s what’s going on beneath the soil as well: rhythms travelling underground – signals being sent – fresh growth pushing upwards. All the paintings are about people, plants and places. I mean – it’s not important whether it’s an interior or an interior state. I’m just trying to make something beautiful. Some of them are rather small, too. I like to make work  where I set myself limits. 

Gerry Mahood from the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland. Lifelong artist.