Is urban sprawl devastating your rural location? Are you trying to cover the view out of your window with luxurious fabrics, flowers and potted plants? Is your Bungalow Bliss turning to Bungalow Blitz? Have you got the latest interior fashion, the flattest plasma TV, and the new 06? Are you sick of trying to keep your garden under control? Is sitting all day in traffic getting you down? Well, just think of how the landscape feels! By interrogating the landscape tradition, I question the notion of the picturesque and the ideal. The Irish landscape is changing rapidly due to increased housing and infrastructure, which erodes its picturesque image. Contemporary architecture incorporates the landscape by including large walls of glass and viewing areas, which reduces the landscape to a purely aesthetic, flat surface for decoration. Plasma screen TV’s are advertised using ideal landscapes and now occupy the place on the wall traditionally reserved for landscape paintings. The built and interior environments have now become of primary importance to society. In my work I reference this new exterior and interior environment along with the tradition of landscape painting to create works “For the way we live today”.