MY STORY
Magic of Childhood
I was creative as a child; I won various art competitions, I played the piano and I loved to knit and sew clothes for my dolls and myself. My imagination was captured by the magic of Enid Blyton. I studied Art for my Leaving Certificate and was enthralled by the works of Renoir and Monet, but this passion fell by the wayside as my career took a different direction.
Career Diversion
Having undertaken a Bachelors of Arts in Irish and Media and Communications, I then did a Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis before embarking on a ten-year career in Software Testing. I left IT in 2010 to become self-employed – I wanted to feel free and I’d a burning desire to help others. I began to create my own “Declutter Therapy” modality to help people let go mentally, emotionally and energetically through the physical act of decluttering. I wrote a book, created an international declutter day, shared my message endlessly via TV, radio and print media and worked with thousands in group and one-to-one settings.
Today, I still teach my The Declutter Academy certified students around the world to work professionally in the area and I also provide consultancy on decluttering for household brands.
Full-Circle Creativity
Committing to my own personal development when I started studying Life Coaching in 2008, I’ve since qualified in Reiki Master Teaching, Nero-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Training, and other disciplines. The process of letting go through my own Declutter Therapy teachings has given me the clarity and peace of mind to reconnect with my imaginative right brain. Although I hadn’t painted in over twenty years, I found myself continually looking at Impressionist art and imagining a paintbrush in my hand, so I returned to art class in 2018.
Lightbridge Art to Lightbridge
I founded Lightbridge Art in 2019 to share my original abstract paintings. I took great care in choosing the name. The “bridge” is big in Reiki – it’s the connector between heaven and earth, and “light” in spiritual terms means truth. I love Monet and his famous green bridge, and that’s the green in my lovely logo.
Since 2020, I’ve been awarded and showcased in many art exhibitions in Ireland and internationally. Qualifying as a ceramicist in 2024, I’ve added St. Brigid Fonts and Goddess Bowls into my product offerings, as well as the St. Brigid Four Elements art prints series.
In 2025, “Lightbridge Art” evolved to simple “Lightbridge” to hold an expansive space for my spiritual and soul guide work, as well as my ceramics and artwork.
Influences
I’m inspired by the magic of the cosmos and the beauty of nature, especially springtime and the flora and fauna of the Irish woods. I find expressing through colourful paint and earthy clay meaningful and moving.
In my work and everyday, I celebrate St. Brigid, the Goddess and Divine Feminine and all things Celtic. Glastonbury is my favourite place to go in the world. I’m known for my real talking, ability to make others laugh and unshakeable belief in miracles. As a qualified stylist and interior designer, I love pattern and fabric and texture as well as colour. Ethereal music and incense and all soft sensory things light me up.
I’ve a fun family and lots of lovely friends. Originally from County Limerick, I’m now living in beautiful East Clare and l love the company of my rescue dog Eddie.
Overlooking the St. Brigid’s Temple on Holy Island, Lough Derg since 2022 reconnected me with my Irish name and my namesake, St. Brigid or Celtic Goddess Bríde.
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I did a deep dive on St. Brigid for my ceramics final project, creating a St. Brigid’s Well water fountain with St. Brigid’s cloak, eternal flame, “Brigid” ogham stone and Imbolg Celtic serpent.
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St. Brigid is greatly regarded in my favourite Glastonbury. Brigid is also seen as a spiritual “bridge”, which feels special to Lightbridge.
As welI as creating St. Brigid Four Elements artwork and St. Brigid Ceramic Font Gift Sets, I also joyfully share The Brigid Experience.
You can see the Limerick Leader feature on my work with Brigid here,
PAINTING PROCESS
I don’t set out with a concept or work to any formal painting rules or criteria. It’s quite simple in that I just give my hand the freedom it wants. I love to paint while listening to music and practising energy work since 2011 has been particularly influential on my approach.
I see a colour in my mind’s eye as the core shade for the painting, and I begin to apply this to the canvas liberally. I find myself intuitively drawn to the colour I need to add to the canvas next and how that needs to integrate and flow. I layer the paint, blending and highlighting using different brush types, sizes and strokes, as well as with my hand.
Each painting goes through a number of iterations. I come and go from the canvas over days, weeks or months to allow it to develop in the way it needs to, and I know when the painting feels finished – it’s like something clicks inside of me. The end result reflects a part of me that I often can’t put words on but yet I know and understand intimately.
I get my completed paintings professionally photographed so I can offer many of these original works as fine-art-quality giclée prints.
What’s fascinating and fun to watch is how differently each person reacts to and sees the same painting – such a wide spectrum of emotions and people, animals, spiritual symbols and shapes! I believe in the power of art as a healing modality and energetic tool and I love how many of my pieces are used by individuals and holistic therapists as healing and meditative aids.
CERAMICS PROCESS
I build all my pieces by hand and I find working with the natural form of clay very grounding and satisfying. I like that ceramics is almost the opposite of painting in terms of the long wait for the mystery end result. This has taught me patience and a new way of being while creating. Clay has an interesting lifecycle in that it takes many states during the process of ceramic making – malleable, hard, delicate, durable, wet, dry, dull, glossy, light, heavy.
Learning all the time, there’s so much to clay and glazing and firing – technical and chemical, variable and specific – all these factors create a playground for trial and error and some beautiful mistakes. I love to make ceramics that have a spiritual significance or ritualistic use.
I make unique round and triangle St. Brigid fonts and I use a bespoke St. Brigid’s cross clay stamp that I designed myself. I also create one-off Goddess Bowls that have a feminine womb shape.
Playing intuitively with abstract patterns and Celtic designs on the fonts and bowls, I find myself unable to recreate the exact same thing twice! All my pieces have the Lightbridge Art clay stamp at the bottom. They are finished by hand and air dried to leather hard over a couple of weeks before being biscuit fired in a pottery kiln to a very high temperature.
I then glaze using special ceramic glazes – glossy brush-on glazes as well as powdered glazes – applied by paintbrush or dipping. Drawn to shades that are earthy and rich, I enjoy experimenting with different coloured glazes and glaze type combinations and as well as fusing stained glass into the pieces. Pieces are glazed fired at the specific temperatures.
I love that depth of texture and finish and colour that you simply can’t recreate with any other medium. In their handbuilt uniqueness, my ceramics have a raw Celtic feel.
SPIRIT & SOUL WORK PROCESS
As a coach, I’ve learned to ask great questions and listen with feeling. I can see the bigger picture as well as the finer detail and I use my intuitive and energetic skills to help inform my spiritual and soul sessions. I bring together the knowledge, wisdom and tools I’ve gained from training and personal development that supports healing and growth.
Writing webtext and cv’s since 1999 has helped me tune into people’s stand-out gifts and missions. In particular, doing my own spiritual work for many years has helped me align with a happy and authentic life. A leading expert in helping people to “let it go” since 2010, I know how to bring about clarity and positive change in the journey of the spirit and soul.