Delighted to share my photography from a 14-page feature in Saveur Magazine's Spring/Summer 2026 issue focused on some of the incredible women farmers and producers in the West of Ireland. The piece featured five wonderful women in Irish food – Kai's Jess Murphy, Theresa Roche from
I'm just back from a few blissful days in the stunning Stilt House at Fernwood, where I got to hang out with my beautiful buddy Kathy Rose, read (and finish!) and entire book, and tuck into the delights of the Gather supper club. I remember reading that this
Family
A (laundry pile-free) highlights reel of family life these past few weeks.
Recent Work
On choosing a school outside of the mainstream.
Now
The joyful little green shoots of March.
Newsletter
Creating your own cosy home on the web.
Galway on film
Back when I was shooting The Kai Cookbook, part of the brief involved getting shots of the restaurant and its surrounding areas. So over the course of the project, I would regularly shoot around Galway and the Westend, and pop into Kai and capture the cake stands or the gorgeous
Photos and finds for the creative and curious.
And re-wilding your digital life.
Fun, feminism and oh-so-much late 90s nostlagia.
And awakening a meadow of delight*.
I don't know about you, but it's only now, with the brightening days, that it's truly beginning to feel like a new year. Bringing that message home was Ari's sweet school craft: He made and decorated this candle at school as part
My buddy Maeve is a special kind of human. Warm, giving, generous and just so authentically herself. I recently heard the phrase “We don’t make friends, we recognize them” and this was very much my experience meeting Maeve. By day, she heads up Music Connects, an amazing organisation who
Snapshots from life lately.
“You are a museum of everything you have ever loved.” - via Well, for a while there it wasn't. This blog, my teeny tiny digital garden had very much gone to seed. For a variety of reasons, it has been offline for a couple of years, but now,
I went to see Hamnet last week with some mama friends and I've been thinking and reading about it ever since. The new film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao, it's a beautiful and brilliant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2000 book of the same name,
One of the big highlights of this year was having the privilege to photograph The Kai Cookbook. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matthew Cox (@newmanandeastwood) For two weeks in April, Jess, food stylist Charlotte, and publisher Kristin and I brought the imagery of the cookbook to
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” — L.M. Montgomery My father died this week. I didn’t know him as I should have – my parents split when I was seven, when we left Mexico and came to Ireland, so contact over the years
April, a time for blossoms, feeding the birds and sweet spring crafts.
So many hermit crabs!