Muldoon paints using the ancient medium of Egg Tempera – exactly as in Uccello’s day; yet his paintings seem a momentary capture of wind and clouds on leaves and water. Muldoon’s technique of building paint up in scores of transparent layers, each new stroke allowing the previous one to show through, results in effects that seem vitreous or enamelled.

And yet his forms are always suggestive of movement and fugitive effects of light. On their own terms, they are entirely believable: even when the forms are completely abstract, they seem arboreal or aquatic. Recently the subjects of his paintings have become, in both senses of the word, more reflective, and the spirit of place has grown stronger.