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I am a painter of landscapes and cityscapes. I like to work quickly, with brushes and pallet knives, to capture the turbulence and unruliness of the built and natural environments. 
In fifteen years as a landscape architect, harnessing, moulding and cajoling open space to behave has been my objective. As a painter, how to translate to canvas it's refusal to do so. An altogether different challenge with the same raw material. 

I hope you enjoy my efforts.

Brendan Higgins NYC, 2013








(in a manner suited to our needs was my goal),


 atmosphere of the built and natural environment. Working witout hesitanct .. Improvising...  I use both brushes and pallet knives. 


As a landscape architect I learned to harness, mould, form and cajole open space into behaving (mostly) for our pleasure - as a painter I am seeking the oppposite, a personal response to what is un-managable, overwhelming and ... . I believe both diciplines have helped inform one another. Sometimes it works




I am a  painter and practicing  Landscape Architect based in the Chinatown section of New York City.

I was born in Castlebar in the West of Ireland in 1973. From 1992 to 1997 I studied Landscape architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. 

Since 1999, I have lived in New York City and have worked continuously as a Landscape Architect in this time 

Over time I've I have tried to allow the influence of my landscape architectural background be come part of  my work. In these 



In 2010 I began contributing football related paintings and drawings to UK based Manchester United Fanzine, Red News. This presented the opportunity to combine two life long passions. 


"I am a painter of portraits and landscapes in oils. I work quickly, in sessions of about an hour, and try to capture the immediacy and truth of a given moment in light and color.



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