Texture, Acrylic, Vinyl Matt Emulsion and Agricultural spray paint on canvas. 150 x 200 cm
A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests. ‘Erratics’ take their name from the Latin word errare (to wander), and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres. 
The Split Rock AKA ‘Fionn’s Stone’ is a large boulder in Easkey, Sligo. The rock is a huge chunk of gneiss, 6 meters long by 2.5 meters high, that was carried north from the Ox Mountains by the retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age nearly 12,000 years ago.
The erratic is said to have been cast here by Fionn Mac Cumhal from the summits of the Ox Mountains during a giants stone-throwing competition. Furious that his cast did not reach the sea, he leaped down and struck the stone with his sword and split it in two.